Bilam in Krias Shema
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pwMEn77_js&feature=youtu.be Bilam in Krias Shema Our Sages teach that they should have included the story of Bilam in Shema. How do we understand this? Rabbi Yitzi shares an important insight
Reb Nussie’s Update
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Table Talk CHUKAS
HERMIT CRAB AND SEA ANEMONE
--The Hermit Crab is a small crab which lives in the shallower parts of the ocean. It spends its first year in the ocean as a gill breather. For its second year, it lives on trees and occasionally gets into the water to get its gills wet, even though it can already...
THE PEOPLE OF SCIENCE
In this week’s double Parsha, Chukas Balak, there is a wonderful lesson to be learnt from the haftorah. The prophet, Micha admonishes his people to remember the incredible kindness that HaKadosh baruch Hu showered upon them. He took them from Egypt. He established...
GIVING THEIR FATHER’S PLEDGE
Giving their father’s pledge BY RABBI YITZI WEINER This week’s Torah portion addresses the mitzvah to keep one’s pledges. The Torah writes that the Jewish people pledged that if they were victorious against the Amalekites they would donate all of the cities to Hashem....
THE HOLY CHEESE
Perhaps nothing better attests to the paramount importance that Reb Yaakov Kamenetzky placed on his wife's needs than his willingness to break his own minhagim to keep from hurting her feelings. Shortly after his second marriage, Shavuos fell on Friday. The Rebbetzin...
HELICONIUS AND THE PASSION FLOWER
Butterflies of the genus Heliconius only lay their eggs on the tropical vine, the Passiflora, which is the passion-flower plant. The vine has features which appear to mimic the distinctive bright yellow eggs of the butterfly. Each species of this butterfly lays its...
BREATHTAKING!
This week's Parsha, Korach, introduces us to Moshe and Aharon's cousin, Korach. Korach was an enigma. From one side we know that Korach was a great person. He was both a Torah scholar and a man of much spiritual greatness. On the other side, however, we know him to...
TAKING BLOOD TO CATCH A THIEF
TAKING BLOOD TO CATCH A THIEF BY RABBI YITZI WEINER This week’s Parsha discusses the feud between Korach and Moshe. The Torah gives us a prohibition not to engage in a feud like Korach did. There is a similar prohibition not to cause physical pain to another person....