By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin This week’s parsha, Ki Seitzei, includes seventy-four of the Torah’s six-hundred-thirteen mitzvos, the most of any one parsha. Amongst them are...

By: Shlomo Katz Rabbeinu Nissim z”l (14th century; Barcelona, Spain) writes that, unlike other nations, the Jews have a dual judicial system. Every nation has...

By:  Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin This week’s parsha opens with the pasuk, “Shoftim v’shotrim titen lecha b’chol sh’arecha, Appoint judges and officers in all your gates.”...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin “Re’eh – Look – See. I set before you today bracha, blessing and klalla, curse.” (Devarim 11:28). Moshe is speaking to Bnei...

By: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb The old and crumbling building housed a synagogue that was a “gift” from Joseph Stalin to the Jews of Odessa....

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Nineteenth of Av 5776, August 23, 2016. Hard to believe that it’s been seven years since the petira, passing of my...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin The Three Weeks. The Nine Days. Tisha B’Av. Times of mourning, one following another, each one recalling the increased pain of...

By: Rabbi Label Lam Who can assure that this heart should remain theirs, to fear Me and observe all My commandments, all the days, so...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin This Shabbos, we begin Sefer Devarim, the fifth book of the Chumash. Parshas Devarim is always read on the Shabbos preceding...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis Is it possible for a person to really cleanse himself and start life anew? And here too, the prophet assures us, “Let...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin This Shabbos, we read two parshiyos, Mattos and Masei. Masei…Journeys. “These are the journeys of Bnei Yisroel who left from Egypt...” (Bamidbar...

By: Rabbi Label Lam If a man makes a vow to HASHEM or makes an oath to prohibit himself, he shall not profane his word;...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Bnei Yisroel’s days in the desert were coming to a close. It would soon be time to enter Eretz Yisroel. This...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis When should you speak out and when should you remain silent? To what extent do you have to take responsibility and...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin The end of an era. Bnei Yisroel’s forty-year journey through the desert was coming to a close. Forty years of travels,...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis Parshas Chukas opens with the enigmatic words, “This is the decree of the Torah… and take unto you a Parah Adumah...