All Ohr HaTorah regulars know about my little bit of a trick question: “How long did it take the Israelites to get from Mt. Sinai to the land of Canaan?” The uninitiated almost always say, “Forty ...
All Ohr HaTorah regulars know about my little bit of a trick question: “How long did it take the Israelites to get from Mt. Sinai to the land of Canaan?” The uninitiated almost always say, “Forty ...
Pirkei Avot 5:24-Teachings of the Sages, in the name of Ben Bag-Bag, teaches, “Turn it and turn it (the Torah) – you will find everything in it.” These words have rung poignantly true in my life, ...
The story of the spies is viewed as an episode revealing the Jews’ basic lack of faith in God (Numbers 13,14). This is similar in its underlying theme to the golden calf story, which describes the ...
After the Jewish People commit the sin of the golden calf, God declares, “Va’achalem” (I will destroy them [the Jewish People]; Exodus 32:10). Moses intervenes. Challenging God, he asks, “Why, O Lord, ...
The mitzvah of hafrashat challah appears for the first time in this week’s Torah portion. The second question is: why does the mitzvah of hafrashat challah appear in the Torah immediately following ...
Beit El (in red circle) was in the territory given to the Tribe of Ephraim. Rabbenu Bachya asks as follows in this week’s parsha: Why did God send twelve scouts and not a smaller number like the two ...
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