Simchat Torah 5781: The Contrasts Between Yaakov’s and Moshe’s Brachot Regarding Shevatim Shimon and Levi

Shalom Friends;

Our Simchat Torah vort is being sponsored by Simon and Aliza Baum and family of Ramat Beit Shemesh who dedicate this vort Lilui Nishmas in honor of Simon’s Mother: Chaya Miriam Bas Boruch. To the Baum family, many thanks for your sponsorship and your continued kindnesses.

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Succot 5781: “Ki Yitzp’neini B’Succah…” — “He Will Hide Me in His Shelter…”

Shalom Friends;

Our Succot vort is being sponsored by Haim and Danit Kalb and family of Ramat Beit Shemesh Lilui Nishmas for Haim’s Dad, Mordechai Yosef ben R’ Efraim and for the Yahrtzeit of Haim’s Grandfather R’ Efraim ben R’ Mordechai. To the Kalb family, many thanks for your sponsorship and for your continued kindnesses.

You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua. read more

Yom Kippur 5781: Finding Atonement on Yom Kippur?

Shalom Friends;

Our Yom Kippur vort is being sponsored by Yossie and Elisheva Schulman of Ramat Beit Shemesh dedicated l’zecher nishmas Elisheva’s Grandmother Zemira bas Yehuda Leib. To Yossie, Elisheva and the Schulman family, may you all be inscribed and sealed for only simcha, success, good health, nachas from your children, and only good things in the year to come and to at least 120 years. Many thanks for your sponsorship and your continued multitudes of kindnesses.

Friends, you can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua. read more

Parshat Ha’azinu 5781: The Eternality of the Bond Between Am Yisrael and Hashem

Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua for Parshat Ha’azinu is being sponsored by Dr. Eliyahu and Shuli Gherman of Ramat Beit Shemesh and dedicated dedicated for continued good health for Atara Tziona bat Shulamit Gila, Refuah Shleima for the cholim of Am Yisrael and for Hatslucha for the Gherman family in Eretz Yisrael. To the Gherman family, many thanks for your sponsorship and for your continued kindnesses.

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Parshiyot Nitzavim-Vayeilech 5780: Entering the Covenant of Hashem and Moshe Rabbeinu’s Farewell

Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua for Twin Parshiyot Nitzavim-Vayeilech are being sponsored by Moshe and Marla Braun of Ramat Beit Shemesh and dedicated L’ilui Nishmas for Marla’s Father Nachman ben Yosef. To the Braun family, many thanks for your sponsorship and for your continued kindnesses.

You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua. read more

Rosh Hashana 5781: Shabbos, The Shofar, Satan and the Corona Pandemic

Shalom Friends;

Our Rosh Hashana 5781 Vort is being sponsored by Avraham and Miriam Deutsch of Efrat wth Special ’Shana Tova wishes for our brethren, the former residents of Gush Katif, as well as wishing Zahal and Kol Am Yisrael L’Shana Tova! To the Deutsch family, many thanks for your continued kindnesses. Avraham and Miriam, may you know only simcha, success, good health, nachas from your children, and only good things in the year to come and in all years to at least 120!

You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua. read more

Parshat Ki Tavo 5780: Aliyah — The Answer to the Slandering of the Jews by the Nations Throughout History, and Today

Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua Ki Tavo is being sponsored anonymously and dedicated L’ilui Nishmas for Sima bat Avraham and Bracha bat Shlomo. To our anonymous sponsor and family, many thanks for your sponsorship and for your continued kindnesses.

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Parshat Ki Teitsei 5780: Unthinkable Conduct, Now the New Normal?

Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua Ki Teitzei is being co-sponsored by Rabbi Tully and Hindy Bryks of Ramat Beit Shemesh and dedicated L’ilui Nishmas for Hindy’s Dad, Moshe Zev Ben Yosef (Marty Ginsberg) z”l. This author also dedicates this Parshat HaShevua Ki Teitzei in honor of all in the Ramat Beit Shemesh “Alef” community who have helped him and all other senior citizens during this Chinese corona virus pandemic. To the Bryks family, many thanks for your sponsorship and for your continued kindnesses. read more

Parshat Shoftim 5780: The Irei Miklat and the Eternality of Halacha vs Man’s Sovereign Law

Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua Shoftim is sponsored by Matt and Ilana Bornstein of Ramat Beit Shemesh and dedicated in honor of their son Yitzchak’s Bar Mitzvah. To the Bornstein family, many thanks for your sponsorship and for your continued kindnesses.

You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua.

Please forward to your relatives and friends and encourage them to sponsor a Parshat HaShevua. And please be in contact with me with any questions, or for further details. read more

Parshat Re’eh 5780: The Navi Sheker and the Ir Hanidachat

Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua Re’eh is co-sponsored by Rabbi Mordechai and Gila Bernstein dedicated for B’Ezrat Hashem, the end of the corona virus pandemic and by Yechiel and Tova Nussbaum dedicated Lilui Nishmas for Yechiel’s Father Yeshaya ben Efraim Fishel. Both families are from Ramat Beit Shemesh. To the Bernstein and Nussbaum families, many thanks for your sponsorship and for your continued kindnesses.

You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua. read more