By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis The Midrash teaches that there were two wealthy people in the world — one, a Jew named Korach, the other, a...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis In this week’s parsha, we discover our tragic predilection for self-destruction. Even if G-d performs open miracles and bestows every blessing upon us,...

By: Rabbi Ben Zion Shafier And Miriam and Aaron spoke about Moshe regarding the Kushis woman that he took, for he took a Kushis woman....

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis In this week’s parsha (Numbers 8:1), Aaron is commanded to kindle the lights of the menorah, but a most unusual word is used...

By: Rabbi Aron Tendler This week’s Parsha, Naso, continues the census taking of the Bnai Yisroel prior to their anticipated entry into Eretz Yisroel. The following...

By: Rabbi Label Lam HASHEM spoke to Moshe saying: Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them: A man or woman...

By: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb Scholars have had a lot to say about the role of aristocracy in the course of human history. Those of...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis In this week’s parsha, we begin the 4th of the Five Books of Moses. This Book is also known as Sefer...

By: Shlomo Katz Parashat Behar opens: “Hashem spoke to Moshe on Har Sinai, saying, ‘. . . When you come into the land that I...

(VINnews) — Old books can contain untold treasures not just in their content but in what hides between the pages. Recently a yellowing page...

By: Naftali Reich The essential theme behind the counting of the sefirah is, of course, perfecting our character traits. This is alluded to in the...

By: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb The custom is fairly prevalent nowadays, but it was not a common practice thirty years ago when my friend raised...

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 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 Mordechai Kamenetzky This week, in reading both Tazria and Metzorah, we combine portions that deal with the physio-spiritual plague of tzora’as. Tzora’as is...

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...