This week’s Parsha continues discussing the harmful effects oflashon hara, senseless negative speech. Many people don’t take speech seriously; they freely speak about others without regard for their feelings or the potential damage it can cause. King Solomon wrote, Life and death are in the hands of the tongue. One explanation given in the Talmud is that […]

When enumerating the non-kosher birds, the Torah mentions a bird called da’ah. The Talmud points out that, later on (Deuteronomy 14:12), when the Torah repeats the list of kosher birds, it refers to it as a ra’ah. The Talmud (Chulin 63a) takes note of the Etymological significance of “ra’ah” because it is the root of the Hebrew verb […]

 Imagine yourself as the leader of an enslaved nation. You have much power on your side and you know you will be able to overpower the reigning monarch who has enslaved your nation for centuries. The time of liberation has finally come and you, the leader of this persecuted nation, will be the one to […]

This Shabbos, the Shabbos before Passover, is referred to as Shabbos HaGadol. The word “Gadol” in Hebrew means “expansive”. It means to transcend your usual way of being. On Passover we see G-d breaking the rules of nature, thereby demonstrating that He actually runs the world. The message for us is to do the same: Be […]