By: Rabbi Meir Tamari When Moshe descended from Har Sinai with the Luchot he had to interrupt the teaching of the Torah he received, because...

By: Rabbi Aron Tendler The underlying theme of Sefer Vayikra is a presentation of an ideal life of Kedusha–sanctity. The setting of the Kohain in...

By: Rabbi Label Lam …You shall not stand by your fellow’s blood. I am HASHEM. (Vayikra 19:16) You shall not stand by your fellow’s blood:...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis Many people will tell you that while they may not be observant, they are spiritual. What exactly does that connote? Does...

By: Menachem Posner What Was the Parting of the Red Sea? The miracle of the parting of the Red Sea (keriat yam suf in Hebrew) was...

By: Rabbi Yehudah Prero The Torah, when speaking about Pesach, tells us that “…and on the seventh day (of Pesach), it should be a holy...

By: Rabbi David Bibi The first Aliyah of Acharei Mot which we read on Shabbat afternoon and Monday morning and which we will read again...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis Many people will tell you that while they may not be observant, they are spiritual. What exactly does that connote? Does...

By:  Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb Most of us have experienced a phase earlier in our lives, perhaps in high school, during which we dreamed...

By: Rabbi Shlomo Riskin “This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing, he shall be brought unto the priest”...

By: Shlomo Katz One of the mitzvot in this week’s parashah is Brit Milah / circumcision. In the additional Harachaman prayers recited in Birkat Hamazon...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis Most of us are under the erroneous impression that loshen hora constitutes only that which is gossip and slander, but if...

By: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb It was a brief but powerful lesson, and I learned it from a recovering drug addict. He was telling his...

By: Rabbi Yissocher Frand This week’s parsha contains the tragic event of the death of Aharon’s two oldest sons. At the height of the joy...

By: Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz Parshas Tzav begins with a discussion of two mitzvos related to the removal of the ashes that accumulated on the mizbayach...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis In this week`s parsha the Torah teaches us that after the Kohen cleaned the ashes of the offerings from the altar,...