emunah
Shlach – Seeing Through the Lie
Why does Hashem respond so harshly to the Jewish people’s lack of faith when they cry with the spies’ report? Why were the Jewish people so afraid to enter Israel if they had just seen, and continued to see, the many miracles Hashem performed on their behalf? Why did they not believe they would continue…
Read MoreAcharei Mos – Rabbi Perr
I am very excited and proud to present the first of hopefully many audio files of my Rosh Yeshiva’s wonderful and inspiring shiurim. I was זוכה to attend Yeshiva of Far Rockaway for close to six years, and I heard vaadim from my Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Yechiel Perr, for close to three of those years.…
Read MorePurim gelt
Guest post by Daniel Based on my best calculations, I gave very close to, or just over, $25 in tzedakah throughout Purim this year. I was makpid to the best of my ability to always give something to anyone that asked me. Upon arriving back at my house, there was a letter waiting for me,…
Read MoreThe mon and parnassah
A friend shared with me the following thought, which I found to be very powerful. Rav Binyamin Goldstein (son of the Rosh Yeshiva of Sharei Yosher in Jerusalem) asked the following question. In regards to the mon, we learn that the tzadikim would find it outside their homes, and the reshaim would have to go…
Read MoreBeshalach – Accessing the supernatural
Why are we specifically told to tell the story (lesaper) of the Exodus? Why was Moshe told not to Daven at Yam suf? How did the Jews survive if they were equally deserving of death because they too served idolatry? How do we tap into the world of the supernatural and miraculous? Find out in…
Read MoreBirthing Moshiach
The Geulah process is compared to the birth of a child, and the troubles we currently experience are the birthpangs – the difficulties that will be’H bring about the final redemption. I was recently thinking about some interesting parallels that this idea leads us to. For the last few months of pregnancy, the average baby…
Read MoreThoughts under fire
This past Wednesday, I was on a bus on my way to Jerusalem for a Sheva Brachos. The bus driver had the radio on and the radio announcer was giving updates on how many missiles had fallen that day. They proceeded to interview a number of people and it was clear that there was a…
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