By Yoni Laub The other day when I got to school, as I was getting out of the car, I remembered that it was “Anything but a Backpack Day”...

By Eric Lenefsky After many years of davening alongside her husband, Yitzchak, Rivka miraculously becomes pregnant. Yet, this pregnancy...

By Tuvia Goldstein רש"י פרשת וירא ישב - ישב כתיב, בקש לעמוד, אמר לו הקדוש ברוך הוא שב ואני אעמוד, ואתה סימן לבניך, שעתיד אני להתיצב בעדת...

By Eric Lenefsky When one thinks of the story of נח and the מבול, one generally associates it with destruction. Hashem is fed up with the...

By Zachary Fish A year.   It’s hard to believe. In some ways, it feels like just yesterday, with the pain still fresh; in others, it...

By Mordy Blau What is the remedy after receiving the tochecha? In the previous section of the tochecha in Bechukotai, the parsha...

By Zach Israeli   The specific spot in which things get placed is pretty important in life. In fact, presidential candidate Vice...

By Tuvia Goldstein Certain combinations, like Oreos and tomato sauce, were never meant to be (trust me on this one). Others, like...

By Josh Appel This week’s Parsha concludes with one of the most enigmatic laws in our corpus. We are told that if a corpse is found...

By Eric Lenefsky   Parshas Re’eh, and the following few parshiyos, represent a shift in Moshe Rabbeinu’s farewell address, from a speech...

By Yoni Laub A few months ago, I bumped into a friend who was in his first year of law school and his first year out of Yeshiva at...

Given my reputation, and the concomitant expectation to live up to it, I initially thought to write about Ibn ʿAzra’s ‘Secret of the...

By Elie Shapiro In the beginning of the Parsha, Hashem commands Moshe to wage war against Midyan,   וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר יְהֹוָ֖ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֥ה...

By Aryeh Bienstock In this week’s parsha, Moshe Rabbeinu requests that Hashem appoint his successor and he is instructed to appoint...

By Judah Graber At the end of Parshas Balak, the Torah recounts the story of how Bnei Yisrael became attached to Baal Peor. The pasuk...

By Zachary Fish Based on this shiur by Shammai Siskind Parshas Chukas opens with one of the Torah's most perplexing laws: the Parah...

By Zachary Fish This week, we find ourselves amidst a fierce political battle, questioning whether the nation's leader is truly fit to...

By Eric Lenefsky After the horrific, tragic event that is חטא המרגלים and its impact on כלל ישראל in that generation, and frankly all...

By Judah Graber Rav Taragin calls this parsha the “pizza pie” parsha because it contains a variety of seemingly random pieces and stories...

By Mordy Blau One question that arises in this week’s Parsha is: why is it so long? Why does the Torah feel the need to detail every...