by Yitzi Weiner | Jun 30, 2017 | Wonders of Hashem's Design
–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...
by Yitzi Weiner | Jun 30, 2017 | Inspiration
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...
by Yitzi Weiner | Jun 30, 2017 | A Moral Dilemma to Ask Your Family at the Shabbos Table
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....
by Yitzi Weiner | Jun 30, 2017 | Inspirational Stories
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...
