Mesukim Midvash is a compendium of Torah articles published in 2003-2004. Each issue of this publication, the complete set of which covered the entire Torah, contains essays on Machshavah, Mussar, and Tefillah. It was published for a year, but the content is timeless. Enjoy!
On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 05:59:43AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > The Rambam in the peirush hamishnayot (Avot 1:16) categorizes types of > dibbur. 1. Mtzaveh (commanded) [...]
If adam harishon had been given a choice of eating from the eitz hachaim or eitz hadaat, which one should he have picked (pun intended)? Why? Bsorot tovot Joel Rich [...]
The Rambam in the peirush hamishnayot (Avot 1:16) categorizes types of dibbur. 1. Mtzaveh (commanded) 2. Asur (forbidden) 3. Maus {disgusting} 4. Ahava (beloved) and 5. Mutar (permitted. How do [...]
> > > https://asif.co.il/wpfb-file/6_2-pdf/ > > > by R. Shmuel Yismach, Igud Yeshivot HaHesder > > < > https://asif.co.il/files_author/%d7%94%d7%a8%d7%91-%d7%a9%d7%9e%d7%95%d7%90%d7%9c-%d7%99%d7%a9%d7%9e%d7%97/ > > > > RMB: The idea that the Y-mi's "iskarah" [...]
R Micha, I am sorry but I believe you are mistaken in saying - Lehalakhah (MB 608:9) it is prohibited to offer tokhachah more than once. That Halacha is limited [...]
This posting appeared in our sister mailing list Areivim, v42i22: > > Every few years it seems the issue of a Cohen on an airplane flying > over a cemetery [...]
Rabbi Ari Kahn cites two Gemaras in which Rabbi Akiva himself criticizes a chacham for lack of sufficient respect for another chacham, and the deathly consequence Rabbi Akiva attributed to [...]
On Sun, May 12, 2024 at 06:31:24PM -0400, Zvi Lampel via Avodah wrote: > https://asif.co.il/wpfb-file/6_2-pdf/ > by R. Shmuel Yismach, Igud Yeshivot HaHesder > The idea that the Y-mi's "iskarah" [...]
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=YzRwajJwYjY3NHAzNmI5bWM0czM0YjlrNzVoM2diYjE2Y3JqOGI5Z2Nvc2o4b3IxNmNzajRwMWk3MCB5Z2JlY2hob2ZlckBt&tmsrc=ygbechhofer%40gmail.comAn early picture of RAEK zt"l from my grandfather zt"l's private albumsRabbi Avrohom Eliyahu Kaplan zt"l100th Yahrzeit Gathering8:30 pm (Eastern Time - New York) Wed May 22, 2024Cong. Anshei Palisades11 Palisades Ct, [...]
Rischa D'AraisaSeason 9 Episode 11Yom Ha'New Shoah:Is the Wound Too Fresh?Listen on:iTunesSpotifyStitcherPodbeanAmazonhttps://jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/79949Please click on this link to contribute whatever you can to keep this podcast on the air: https://thechesedfund.com/yeshivaofnewarkpodcast/keeping-the-ark-afloat With downloads approaching the million mark-and [...]
I will be sharing this post widely, to cast as large a net as possible.Planning forReb Avrohom Eliyahu Kaplan זצ"ל זי"ע's100th Yahrzeit15 Iyar, Wednesday Evening, May 22I would like to [...]
New Series!Nach b'Iyun Sefer Shoftim, part 1:1.1-5: Yehuda and Shimon vs. Cana'anFocusing on the Malbim and the Bigdei Shesh.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFO8jqjXCHk?si=A2AI0TJXbW3ZYuQs]Links to subsequent segments in the series will appear in the [...]
The Jewish Week part 1(The Gates of the Jewish Calendar part 29)"A Jew lives with the parashah." First in a series on the week, its days and its ramifications.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbw-JhIMdVE?si=be2GsCGn5TrtcllW]Subsequent shiurim [...]
A recording for the BHP daily Halachic Whatsapp group https://chat.whatsapp.com/Gz8rrxqRcfy9rMOXRLG6GS[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sxrAs2naCU?si=oTwAtulxcW5b9mQ8] [...]
The Great Pesach Calendar Problem! (The Gates of the Jewish Calendar part 28)Note that this is already a problem: This year Pesach is beginning after Chodesh HeAviv, the first month [...]
A considerable amount of family history and lore, of both the Bechhofer and Schochet families.https://cloud.3dissue.net/30937/30814/31092/110247/index.html [...]
The Yeshiva World of the 19th CenturyA talk to the Jewish History class of the Meoros High School for Girls in Orlando, Florida.From Volozhin to Telshe, touching on Litvishe and [...]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP9RhHBLHRY?si=IsY2o_izDpHdRFsP]A recording for the BHP daily Halachic WhatsApp group https://chat.whatsapp.com/Gz8rrxqRcfy9rMOXRLG6GS [...]
Rischa D'Araisa Season 9 Episode 10:Pesach Special1. The Need to Kasher Stainless Steel2. The Imperative to become Klei Kibbulhttps://jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/78878Please click on this link to contribute whatever you can to keep this [...]
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The Avodas Hashem of an EclipseA talk to the Meoros High School for Girls in Orlando, Florida before they went out to experience a Solar Eclipse.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SucFMW5huI?si=4LlRCiJVNcMSJuWL] [...]
A Shiur on the Thoughts ofHaRav Shlomo Fisher zt"l on EclipsesFrom the Derashos Beis Yishai[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn_VMTLMOxU?si=-Nc7Icq31i_E3v5f] [...]
Eclipses and the Jewish Month (The Gates of the Jewish Calendar part 28)[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0h_rDEVpeg?si=ensgxv-crokblkkk]Subsequent shiurim in this series will be listed in the comments here. [...]
Rischa D'Araisa Season 9 Episode 9:Seeing With Rebbe Elimelech's Eye:A Tale of Channel 12's Two VideosOn Charedi Army Service and on Dor Yifrachhttps://jewishpodcasts.fm/yeshivaofnewark/78244Please click on this link to contribute whatever [...]
Here’s my theory about the origin of this minhag. My point here is not really about advocating for the minhag. I just feel a need to push back when people [...]
והיה רגיל להוכיח אותי על שראה שאינני משתתף בצערא דאחרינא. וכה היה דברו אלי תמיד שזה כל האדם. לא לעצמו נברא רק להועיל לאחריני ככל אשר ימצא בכחו לעשות. [My [...]
Micha’s note: The following was a post written to the Mesorah email list by Rabbi Dr. Seth Mandel zt”l, a rebbe-chaver of mine (more: a rebbe who insisted on treating [...]
(I put these thoughts together for a reply for my daughter Gavi, who pointed me to a medrash that “everyone in her neighborhood” were talking about, but I then was [...]
“Poteach et Yadekha“, oil on canvasHaim Masliach, 2021 A comment by Ilana Elzafun* brought this Seforno to my attention. This week’s parashah (Lekh Likha), Bereishis 16:13, describes Hagar’s prayer to [...]
Dear R Dr Broyde (Cc: Avodah), Over Shabbos, I read your article about getting ChatGPT to discuss whether a kohein in a same-sex marriage may go up to duchen. I [...]
The chaburah at Zelmele’s Kloiz is now learning Derashos haRan, the third derashah. I wanted to continue a conversation we had there, in light of today being Tish’ah beAv. The [...]
Began Thursday, June 8th, 2023, at 8:00pm EDTat Zelemele’s Kloiz The chaburah at Zelmele’s Kloiz started the Ran’s third derashah Thursday, June 8th, 2023. It is now ongoing at our [...]
The Medrash about Qorach rhetorically asking of Moshe why a tallis that is made of tekheiles would need one more tekheiles thread for tzitzis ties the mitzvah of tzitzis to [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:13 1. T The things we say can also link celestial worlds, rectify this one, and interconnect with the upper worlds, as we’ll now see. After all, we’re [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:7 (¶ 118 [middle]) 1. We’d do well to take something into consideration, Ramchal adds here. It’s that just because something or someone is imperfect doesn’t mean [...]
The Way of G-d 2:6:4 1. G-d allowed for a prosecutor in His court, famously known as satan 1. His role is to argue against the accused, which them enables [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:12 1. R. Chaim already spoke 1 of the fact that we could only link celestial worlds, rectify this one, and interconnect with those upper worlds after we’d [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:6 (¶ 118 [beginning]) 1. Ramchal reiterates here 1 that wrong is a created entity 2 that was only designed to last for as long as G-d wanted [...]
The Way of G-d 2:6:3 1. Given the above, the fact is that G-d doesn’t judge the world according to His foreknowledge but rather according to the way He wants [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:11 1. Following up on the thought offered in the last chapter that despite our being connected to physicality we’re nevertheless superior to angels, R’ Chaim now [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:5 (¶s 116 [end] – 117) 1. Ramchal says that he’s going to expand upon things he’d said above 1 and reveal things that are “deep” about [...]
The Way of G-d 2:6:2 1. G-d appears in each Sanhedrin and court, influences it, and sees to it that justice is served 1. Now, in some instances [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:10 1. Given all of the above concerning our makeup and capacities, it’s reasonable to wonder whether angels are loftier than we are or we’re loftier than they. [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:4 (¶ 116 [beg.]) 1. Ramchal is about to offer something that will serve as a prelude to what’s to follow 1. It’s that even though G-d [...]
Derech Hashem 2:6:1 In the course of His interactions with the world 1, G-d arranged it so that phenomena that affect both the things that humankind brings about 2 and [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:9 1. Following through on the discussion of the previous chapter, R’ Chaim contrasts the situation of the generation that dwelt in the Sinai Desert 1 with that [...]
Da’at Tevunot 3:3 (¶’s 103- 115) 1. It seems logical, doesn’t it, that goodness would be a product of something that emanates goodness while wrongfulness would be a product of [...]
Da’atTevunot 3:2 (# 98 – 102) 1. Ramchal starts to explain the role of wrong and injustice in the world with a proposition derived from Rambam1. It’s that when G-d [...]
Nephesh Hachaim 1:8 1. R’ Chaim offers a rather complex discussion here about the positioning of the Cherubs in the Tabernacle and Holy Temple in order to illustrate his point [...]
The website 18FORTY has a fantastic and thoughtful multimedia post on OTD that is worth watching, reading, and listening to. If you are reading this then you know I don’t [...]
Spoiler, there isn’t much substance to I what have to say. Also, I am spoiling the end of the Skywalker saga. After reading an excellent essay by Rabbi Harry Maryles [...]
I checked my recent writing history today and the last legit post of mine was really 3.5 years ago. For some that’s a long chunk of time. In that time [...]
My wife’s comment on Simchas Torah pretty much summed it up, “I feel like this is the biggest tease for you.” You see, my mom a”h was niftar right before [...]
When today comes around I usually think about things my father missed since he has been gone. I decided that this year I’ll attempt to list a number of things [...]
Walking out of shul, the morning after Yom Kippur, a follow early Sunday morning riser casually said to me, “Back to normal, right?” I was taken off guard (and also [...]
I have started this post about 2 dozen times over the past 3 years and I never seem to get more than about 300 words written about why I stopped [...]
I want to share something that Rav Efraim Twerski said at his Shabbos HaGadol drasha. After starting off with 10 questions Rav Twerski said over an amazing Torah from Rav [...]
So, tonight’s the 6th yahrtzeit for my dad, Avraham ben Zorach a”h (Al, of blessed memory). Like everyone else that has lost a parent I lit my 24 hour yahrzeit [...]
“WARMED BY THE FIRE OF THE AISH KODESH– Torah from the Hilulas of Reb Kalonymus Kalman Shapira of Piaseczna” by Rav Moshe Weinberger and adapted by Binyomin Wolf is more [...]