Weekly Newsletter Volume 2, Issue 10

July 9, 2022; Tamuz 10, 5782

Parsha “Therefore the rulers said, ‘let us enter into Cheshbon…’ (Numbers 21:27).”

The Gemorah in Bava Basra 78b provides the following interpretation of this Pasuk: “Therefore the rulers - of their [evil] inclinations said, ‘Come and consider the [Cheshbon or] accounting of the world – which is the [small] loss incurred by doing a Mitzva versus the [large] gain earned through it, and the [small] gain obtained by doing an Avaira versus the [large] loss incurred through it...”

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Weekly Newsletter Volume 2, Issue 9

July 2, 2022; Tamuz 3, 5782

Parsha Rav Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg ZT”L asks in Tochachos Mussar #45, that we find that Moshe Rabbeinu had always sought Hashem’s forgiveness of Klal Yisroel whenever they fell or stumbled. For example, regarding the sin of the Eigel, the golden calf, the Gemorah in Brachos 32a elaborates on the extent of Moshe’s many prayers and self-sacrifice on their behalf. Yet, by Korach we find the exact opposite. In BaMidbar 16:15 he asks Hashem not to pay any attention to their offerings. Why was this so? [Also, in 16:29-30, Moshe stipulates that Korach’s followers will meet a very tragic end which is not in concert with Moshe’s general method of dealing with sinners.]....

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Weekly Newsletter Volume 2, Issue 8

June 25, 2022; Sivan 26, 5782

Parsha The Meraglim, the spies, were exceptional people. Rashi (Bamidbar 3:3) explains that the word “Anashim” which the Torah used to describe the Meraglim – indicates that, at the time, they were highly moral people. So what went wrong? How could they have attempted to undermine the entire purpose of coming to Eretz Yisroel and have made such a cataclysmic error by speaking negatively against Eretz Yisrael?

We can perhaps gain insight from one of the descriptions that the Meraglim had given of the land that they were sent to spy out....

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