DON’T BE OLD AND SLEEPY
For the past three weeks we were focused on the loss of our Temple and of our Land. For over two thousand years we have wandered through the desert of nations throughout the globe as homeless beggars. We would spend a century or two sometimes three or four in one land...
THE COMMON MIME
The common mime is a butterfly that lives on the island of Sri Lanka, off the coast of India. Consider this interesting life history that required a lot of brilliant planning to originate. We find here five mimic stages in its life: The golden egg is laid on the...
THE BIG META-MITZVA DILEMMA
By Rabbi Yitzi Weiner Baruch Hashem, TableTalk has been met with wide appreciation. Many people share the Mitzvah Dilemma at their Shabbos table. At the same time, we constantly get asked why we don’t share the answers. Initially, we did share the answers in the...
HOLY BABY NAMING
The two oldest children of Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv received names from Rav Elyashiv’s side of the family: The oldest son, was named after Rav Elyashiv’s grandfather, the Leshem, and their second child, Batsheva Esther, was named after Rav Elyashiv’s grandmother,...
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FLYING SPIDERS
Spiders go higher in the sky than any other living creature on our planet. This is part of their way of taking long-distance journeys to new lands. The mother spider carries her babies in a brown bag. Inside the bag are about 200 baby spiders, each one the size of a...
THE HOLY HORSES
One Rosh Hashanah, Rabbi Dovid of Lelov was at the court of the Seer of Lublin. It was time to blow the shofar, but Rabbi Dovid was missing and the Seer did not want the shofar sounded until Rabbi Dovid was present. Eventually someone found him in a barn, with a sack...
CLARITY; A LESSON FROM NOSSIE MUNK Z’L
In this week’s Parsha, Balak, Balak the king of Moav hires Bilam to curse the Jewish people. Bilam has a record of cursing people; even whole nations, successfully. His power was bestowed upon him by HaKadosh baruch Hu and he used this power for evil. It is remarkable...
THE TRAPPED PET MOUSE
THE TRAPPED PET MOUSE By Rabbi Yitzi Weiner This week’s Torah portion discusses how Bilam beat his donkey unnecessarily. The angel asked Bilam, “Why did you beat your donkey? (Bamidbar 22,32)”. The Sefer Chasidim (Os 666) writes that this verse is one of the sources...