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Parshas Shoftim – Overcoming Negative Traits; Spiritual Growth

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis The parsha opens with the words, “Judges and officers shall you appoint for yourselves in all of your gates.” (Deut. 16:17)...

Parshas Re’eh – To Really See

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin In Parshas Re’eh, Moshe continues to give his final message to Bnei Yisroel. He speaks of the blessings that come with...

Parshas Re’eh – ”What’s Missing In This Picture?”

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....

Parshas Eikev–Roots

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Summertime finds our family upstate. Our development is blessed to have a magnificent shul, with a giant oak tree right in...

Parshas Eikev – Humility: On the Shoulders of Our Father

By: Rabbi Pinchas Winston And now, O Israel, what does God, your God, demand of you? Only to fear God, your God, to walk in...

Parshas Vaeschanan – Brick by Brick

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Parshas Va’eschanan is always read on Shabbos Nachamu. V’eschanan. The parsha in which Moshe begs and pleads with HaShem to be...

Parshas Vaeschanan – Where Torah Resides

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...

Tisha B’Av–A Tale of Two Fathers

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin The Nine Days. Tisha B’Av. A time to remember the churban Beis HaMikdash, the devastation of Yerushalayim, the pain and persecution...

Parshas Devarim – Eternal Love

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...

Parshas Matos – Battle Lessons

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin In parshas Matos, members of the tribes of Gad and Reuven, approach Moshe, Elazar the Kohen, and the princes of the...

Parshas Matos – Putting People First

By: Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky During the presidential run of 1992, candidate Bill Clinton published a book entitled Putting People First. He had it right. He...

Parshas Pinchas–To Be a Zealot

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin This week’s parsha carries the name of Pinchas, son of Elazar, grandson of the Kohein Gadol, Aaron. The backstory to this week’s...

Parshas Pinchas – “Avoiding a Hateful Heart”

By: Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb Love is an emotion. It is a feeling, often a very passionate one that we have toward another person,...

Parshas Balak – Build a Tent

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin This week’s parsha tells us of Balak, King of Moav, and Bilaam, a sorcerer and practitioner of black magic. Balak saw Bnei...

Parshas Balak – Making the Most of Our Days

By: Shlomo Katz In this week’s parashah, we read how Bilam tried to curse Bnei Yisrael. Pirkei Avot (ch.5) teaches that evil-doers like Bilam do...

Parshas Chukas–Thinking is Not Enough

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

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