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Dvar for Ekev (Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25)
Summary: Dvar for Ekev (Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25) Shlomo Ressler Parshat Ekev is where we learn of the benefits and rewards, punishments and consequences, of following and not following the Mitzvot (commandments) set forth for us in the Torah. The answer lies in understanding the true difference between animals and people…What separates us from animals is our ability to choose, and our exercising of that choice. The lesson of the Parsha is for us to think about what we're doing, ... 0%
Morsels of Hebrew Grammar by Dr. Meshullam Klarberg - Parshas Eikev
Summary: Rashi, who wrote before the three-letter root theory had become fully accepted, could relate words that later became regarded as having an Ayin Vav Lamed (Nachei Ayin"Vav) root and words having an Ayin Lamed Lamed (Kefulim) root as belonging to the same two-letter root. This is in line with Menachem, who in his Machberet, lists both olal and ul as belonging to the fifth meaning of the two-letter root Ayin Lamed. Radak, who sees the root as being Ayin Vav Lamed, is consistent with the later ... 0%
Chasidic Insights by Zvi Akiva Fleisher - Parshas Eikev
Summary: Chasidic Insights by Zvi Akiva Fleisher - Parshas Eikev Shema Yisrael Torah Network CHASIDIC INSIGHTS PARSHAS EIKEV 5768 (from 5765) BS"D Ch. (Kedushas Levi) Alternatively, one knows that he has properly done Hashem's wishes when "eikev tish'm'un," after he has hearkened to Hashem's wishes, he feels "v'hoyoh," joyful. Read these words as: "If you forget to serve Hashem with "v'hoyoh," with joy, then it will ch"v lead to "tishkach es Hashem Elokecho." 0%
Beloved Children by Rabbi Yisrael Pesach Feinhandler - Parshas Eikev
Summary: Beloved Children by Rabbi Yisrael Pesach Feinhandler - Parshas Eikev Shema Yisrael Torah Network What Are Your Children's Priorities? In the year 5406 (1646), the rabbi of Frankfurt, Rabbi Yeshayahu Ben Rabbi Sheptyl Segal Horowitz, died. Making Torah learning our primary activity is doing His will, thus He will readily sustain us when we learn Torah. 0%
Kinder Torah by Simcha Groffman - Parshas Eikev
Summary: Kinder Torah by Simcha Groffman - Parshas Eikev Shema Yisrael Torah Network All of the Mitzvah "We have an interesting homework assignment today, Abba." "The Rebbe told us to make a list of mitzvos that we have never or rarely fulfilled." We may be very careful and motivated to fulfill a particular mitzvah or group of mitzvos. 0%
Bigdei Kehuna by Yehuda Katz - Parshas Eikev
Summary: Bigdei Kehuna by Yehuda Katz - Parshas Eikev Shema Yisrael Torah Network You shall cut (circumcize) the barriers (foreskin) of your hearts......................................................."( The Sefer HaChinuch explains circumcision in the following manner: "G-d desired to perfect the character of Israel, and He wished that this perfection be effected by man himself. He did not create man complete and perfect from the womb, in order to hint to man that just ... 0%
The Weekly Daf - Gittin 40 - 46
Summary: The Weekly Daf - Gittin 40 - 46 "Ohr Somayach" HALF-SLAVE, HALF-FREE _____________________ Two cases of half-slave, half-free people are mentioned in our gemara. The reason for this is that the half-slave will otherwise be denied the opportunity of fulfilling the mitzvah of procreation, since his unique status renders it impossible for him to marry either a free woman or slave. But if the issue is populating the world, this should apply to the female slave as well, just as it ... 0%
TalmuDigest - Gittin 44 - 50
Summary: TalmuDigest - Gittin 44 - 50 "Ohr Somayach" - Retrieving a slave from captivity - If children are penalized for their father's violation of a rabbinic ban - A slave sold to an owner outside of Eretz Yisrael - Whether money is returned in an invalid transaction - Ransoming captives and helping them escape - The "bird talk" of Rabbi Ilish - Redeeming sacred objects from non-Jews - Which cause of divorce prevents remarriage with the divorcee - The vow which cannot be nullified - ... 0%
Torah Weekly - Parshat Ekev
Summary: Torah Weekly - Parshat Ekev "Ohr Somayach" OVERVIEW ________ If Bnei Yisrael carefully observe even those "minor" mitzvot that are usually "trampled" underfoot, Moshe promises them that they will be the most blessed of the nations of earth. After again warning Bnei Yisrael to burn all carved idols of Canaanite gods, Moshe stresses that the Torah is indivisible and not open to partial observance. However, when G-d gave Moshe the second tablets they only contained the Written ... 0%
Ekev - Forethoughts And Afterthoughts
Summary: We know that the Manna came down in daily portions, one portion each day from Sunday through Thursday and a double portion on Friday. Another reason that the Manna was not provided annually was so that they could have warmed food each day.? ? s supply of Manna through the desert and eat it cold each day in order to have control over his food supply, rather than have it provided on a daily basis. 0%
[Os-Special] S P E C I A L S - Some are Here and Summer There
Summary: [Os-Special] S P E C I A L S - Some are Here and Summer There "Ohr Somayach" "Those hazy, lazy, crazy days of summer" Thus goes the chorus of a once-popular song that reflects the summer culture of the United States that has infected most of the world. Even on the lower levels in the USA whose schedules are influenced by the high school summer break and urban humidity, there are summer learning camps that allow for regular studies to continue in more comfortable surroundings. 0%
TalmuDigest - Gittin 37 - 43
Summary: TalmuDigest - Gittin 37 - 43 "Ohr Somayach" - The loans which the Shmitah year does not cancel - Paying a Shmita-canceled loan - Redeeming a slave taken prisoner by non-Jews - Status of slave whose owner has relinquished ownership or who has donated him to the Sanctuary - The problem of freeing a slave - Comparison and contrast between woman and slave - Indications of owner's intention to free his slave - A mortgaged slave - Responsibility for an indiscernible damage - Freeing a... 0%
The Weekly Daf - Gittin 33 - 39
Summary: The gemara cites a story to illustrate the severity of punishment for a false oath which frightened widows into refraining from taking an oath. It was the fear of inadvertently being guilty of a false oath that discouraged widows from collecting their ketubah money through an oath and necessitated the decree of Rabban Gamliel. Rabbi Eliezer deemed the situation an emergency and liberated his Canaanite slave to complete the minyan. 0%
Torah Weekly - Parshat Va'etchanan
Summary: Torah Weekly - Parshat Va'etchanan "Ohr Somayach" OVERVIEW ________ Although Moshe is content that Yehoshua will lead the nation, Moshe nevertheless prays to enter the Land of Israel in order to fulfill its special mitzvot. Moshe impresses on Bnei Yisrael that the Sinai revelation took place before an entire nation, not to a select elite, and that only the Jews will ever claim that Hashem spoke to their entire nation. Moshe predicts, accurately, that when Bnei Yisrael dwell in... 0%
A Weekly Byte...From Isralight (Va'etchanan 5768)
Summary: Noach had the potential to be a comfort to the world, because he offered the world, even such a world gone mad, a new perspective, and a different way of looking at the world. And, by changing the way he viewed the world, Moshe changed the way we looked at the world as well, thus changing our destiny as a people forever. And if the same word for comfort (nechama) also implies change (va'yinachem'), then our greatest comfort will be if something changes. 0%
Morsels of Hebrew Grammar by Dr. Meshullam Klarberg - Parshas Va'eschanan
Summary: Morsels of Hebrew Grammar by Dr. Meshullam Klarberg - Parshas Va'eschanan Shema Yisrael Torah Network Parashat Va'Et'chanan How one analyses a verb depends on the theory one follows va'et'chanan (Deut 3:23) ('and I beseeched') Rashi (11th cent.) It follows that according to Rashi the root of both va'et'chanan and chinam might well consist of the two letters Chet Nun. If so the final Nun of va'et'chanan might be seen as an additional letter, replacing the ... 0%
Chasidic Insights by Zvi Akiva Fleisher - Parshas Va'eschanan
Summary: Chasidic Insights by Zvi Akiva Fleisher - Parshas Va'eschanan Shema Yisrael Torah Network CHASIDIC INSIGHTS PARSHAS VO'ES'CHANAN 5768 (from 5765) BS"D Ch. 3, v. 23: "Vo'es'chanan el Hashem bo'eis ha'hee" - Moshe prayed for the final redemption, which is called "bo'eis ha'hee," as per the verse, "Bo'eis ha'hee ovi es'chem uv'eis kabtzi es'chem" (Tzefanioh 3:20). (Rabbi Sho'ul Y'didyoh Elozor of Modzitz) Ch. 3, v. 23: "Bo'eis ha'hee" - At the time of prayer - ... 0%
Beloved Children by Rabbi Yisrael Pesach Feinhandler - Parshas Va'eschanan
Summary: Beloved Children by Rabbi Yisrael Pesach Feinhandler - Parshas Va'eschanan Shema Yisrael Torah Network Reacting to Your Children's Failures Then Moshe designated three cities on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising sun. (DEVARIM 4:41) In the process of his conquest of large parts of Russia, Napoleon would occasionally take advice from great rabbis about his chances of success on the battlefield. Go and set aside for them cities of refuge," as it is written,... 0%
Kinder Torah by Simcha Groffman - Parshas Va'eschanan
Summary: Kinder Torah by Simcha Groffman - Parshas Va'eschanan Shema Yisrael Torah Network Parashas Voeschanan The Yoke of Heaven "Those oxen sure are working hard, Avi." It is really like a parable to the first verse of Kriyas Shema - kabalas Ole Malchus Shomayim - the acceptance of the Yoke of Heaven." He can toil for Hashem by accepting the Yoke of Heaven. 0%
Bigdei Kehuna by Yehuda Katz - Parshas Va'eschanan
Summary: Bigdei Kehuna by Yehuda Katz - Parshas Va'eschanan Shema Yisrael Torah Network VEETCHANON "And you shall love Hashem , your G-d, with all your heart......... Therefore, when the Torah wants us to love Hashem with our "evil inclination", its telling us that we must learn from the "evil inclination" and the energy it has as an example of how much we must exert ourselves when serving Hashem. We must "love" Hashem with the power of our good inclination and the ... Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10  
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