Weekly Newsletter Volume 5, Issue 24, Parshas Shmini

April 26, 2025; 28 Nissan, 5785 Sponsored anonymously for the Refuah Shleimah of Yair Nissan Ben Sara

In Parshas Shmini, we encounter one of the Torah's most tragic episodes: the sudden death of Aharon's sons, Nadav and Avihu, as they bring an unauthorized offering before Hashem. The Torah describes their actions with striking brevity: "And Nadav and Avihu, the sons of Aharon, each took his fire pan, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered a strange fire before Hashem, which He had not commanded them." (Vayikra 10:1). The consequences were swift and severe, "Fire went out from before Hashem and consumed them, and they died before Hashem." (Vayikra 10:2)...

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Weekly Newsletter Volume 5, Issue 23, Parshas Vayikra

April 5, 2025; 7 Nissan, 5785 Sponsored by Rabbi Yaakov Mandel, L’Ilui Nishmas Esther Bas Menachem Manis

"…אָדָם כִּי יַקְרִיב מִכֶּם קָרְבָּן לַה” - When a person will bring from you, an offering to Hashem… (Vayikra 1:2)

The customary term that the Torah uses in reference to a Jewish person is the Hebrew word “Ish”—a man. In this instance however, the Torah uses the word “Adam”—a person. 

Rashi (based upon an old text of the Midrash Tanchuma Siman 2) explains that the term Adam is specifically employed by the verse to teach us an important lesson. It teaches us that we must be very careful to ensure that what be bring for Hashem is free of any theft...

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Weekly Newsletter Volume 5, Issue 22, Parshas Pekudei

March 29, 2025; 29 Adar, 5785 Sponsored anonymously for the Refuah Shleimah of Yair Nissan Ben Sara

Rav Laizer Yudel Finkel ZT”L was the last Rosh Yeshiva of the Mirrer Yeshiva in Poland. The vast majority of the students of the Mirrer Yeshiva escaped Nazi-occupied Europe to Kobe, Japan and then to Shanghai. The Rosh Yeshiva eventually re-established the Mirrer Yeshiva in Jerusalem and a large percentage of the students that were in Shanghai rejoined him, including his son-in-law, Rav Chaim Shmulevitz ZT”L, who eventually succeeded him. 

Since the founding of the State of Israel, fixed-term military service has been compulsory for its citizens...

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