Category Archives: Parshah Newsletter

Shlach Parshah thoughts @@@@@@ Spymaster Lessons What can we learn from the story of the meraglim? The children suggested that we understand 1. the severity of lashon harah, 2. the value in Eretz Yisroel and 3. how important it is … Continue reading →

Behaaloscha Parsha Thoughts @@@@@@ You’re A Group In Behaaloscha we learn that the Levi’im began at aged 25. In Devarim it states that they started at 30. Rashi explains that t Like   Tweet   Pin   +1   in … Continue reading →

Shavuos Thoughts @@@@@@ What is Shavuos about? The Torah does not connect Shavuos to Matan Torah. The connection appears in our t’filla; ‘z’man matan Toraseinu’, and Like   Tweet   Pin   +1   in   @@@@@@ What is Shavuos … Continue reading →

Naso Parshah Thoughts @@@@@@ Initiative Moshe was reluctant to accept wagons from the Nesi’im until Hashem told him to. Why? Wagons were not necessary to make the Mishkan. Hashem gave Moshe a specific list of the things needed; gold, silver, … Continue reading →

We spoke about two things:  1. the parshah discusses protocol. Not much else. It involves itself with counting the Jews, done with the nesi’im, the tribal leaders, then talks about what formation the Jews traveled in and camped, then talked about the … Continue reading →

Bamidbar Parshah Thoughts @@@@@@ Segregation, TorahStyle Separating the people into distinct tribes. Living apart from each other, unique in lifestyle. Is that ‘Achdus’: unit Like   Tweet   Pin   +1   in   @@@@@@ Segregation, TorahStyle Separating the people … Continue reading →

Bechukosai Parshah Thoughts @@@@@@ Clean Focus Do good, and ‘you will take out the old before the new’. Rashi explains that because of the grain overstock you empty the granari Like   Tweet   Pin   +1   in   … Continue reading →

Pesach 2014 1. What is the Yam Suf? Is it a certain specific place, as assumed, or a generic term for a reedy sea? One thinks it ought to refer to a specific place, often assumed to be the Gulf … Continue reading →

Behar @@@@@@ Earth Day Six years work your field, the seventh is shmitta. Six days we work and rest on the seventh. Are the two connected? The Malbim sug Like   Tweet   Pin   +1   in   @@@@@@ … Continue reading →

Behar @@@@@@ Earth Day Six years work your field, the seventh is shmitta. Six days we work and rest on the seventh. Are the two connected? The Malbim sug Like   Tweet   Pin   +1   in   @@@@@@ … Continue reading →

1. Why did he curse Hashem? What happened? Rashi gives us one version – he heard that we are to place the bread an entire week and laughed; ‘before a human king only fresh bread is good, certainly before the … Continue reading →

Emor Parshah Thoughts @@@@@@ Believing In Hashem Too Much The Man ‘went out’ and cursed Hashem. Why did he do it? Rashi links it to the Torah’s intro, ‘he went out…’, i Like   Tweet   Pin   +1   … Continue reading →

Emor Parshah Thoughts @@@@@@ Believing In Hashem Too Much The Man ‘went out’ and cursed Hashem. Why did he do it? Rashi links it to the Torah’s intro, ‘he went out…’, i Like   Tweet   Pin   +1   … Continue reading →

Kedoshim Parshah Thoughts @@@@@@ Gusto We are forbidden to eat a sacrifice past its allowed time. The Torah claims this is ‘desecrating the Holies of Hashem’. How’s that? A Like   Tweet   Pin   +1   @@@@@@ Gusto We … Continue reading →

Pesach Thoughts @@@@@@ Fooling Ourselves Why were Jews allowed to sing at the Yam Suf while angels were admonished “My creations drown at sea, and you sing to Me?!” One town had a Mosser, an informant, who harassed the folk … Continue reading →

Achrei Mos @@@@@@ The Buck Stops Here Why were the two goats used in the Yom Kippur sacrifice exactly the same size, price and look? Why do they need to be the same? The kids suggested that since one for … Continue reading →

Metzorah Parshah Thoughts @@@@@@ Our Daily Tragedies Rashi says that its good news that Hashem will give our houses tzaraas in Eretz Yisroel, because we will find hidden treasure while tearing down the house. Tzaraas is commonly viewed as a … Continue reading →

Tazria Parshah Thoughts @@@@@@ Whats Wrong With Slander? The Rambam writes that when people denigrating others, eventually they will laugh at scholars too. Next they deny the Prophets’ validity. Eventually they will make jokes of Hashem and deny His existence. … Continue reading →

Shmini Parshah Thoughts @@@@@@ Kosherizing Non-kosher food clogs the soul. (Rashi). What blocks the soul; the stuff itself, or the fact that it is forbidden? Rashi tells us that worms in drinking water are forbidden only after they separate from … Continue reading →