Parshas Nasso – The Roots of Repentance
To view as PDF click here. This week’s Torah portion speaks of the commandment to confess one’s wrong-doings before G-d as a part of repentance. This Sicha analyzes the essence of repentance according to...
The Center For Jewish Thought
To view as PDF click here. This week’s Torah portion speaks of the commandment to confess one’s wrong-doings before G-d as a part of repentance. This Sicha analyzes the essence of repentance according to...
A deeper look at the priestly blessing.
A Jew feels that he cannot find completion without the coming of Moshiach. He therefore constantly hopes for his coming, for without it he feels lacking. It is because of this that when a...
Peace and difference.
The significance of the priestly blessing.
Torah the infinite wisdom of Hashem is the essence of all existence.
By Rabbi Chaim Chazzan The cost of out-of-town mesivta is challenging. Can pay tuition with my maaser money? As explained in previous (issues 217-218) one cannot pay for obligations with maaser money, since tzedakah is supposed to be...
By Rabbi David Sterne This week, we rejoin our sixteenth century sage, the Megaleh Amukot (R’ Nosson Nata Shapira) in a new book of the five books of Moses, in Bamidbar (“In the...
An essay on quantity and quality
The Secret of Israel’s Desert Encampment