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

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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.

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Parshat Eikev 5780: The “Unimportant” Small Details

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Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua Eikev is sponsored by Dov and Lauren Greenberg of Ramat Beit Shemesh and dedicated in honor of their son Moshe Yitzchak’s twelfth birthday. To the Greenberg 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 Va’etchanan 5780: Possible Alternative Reasons for the Divine Decree Denying Moshe Entry into Eretz Yisrael

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Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua Va’etchanon is sponsored anonymously and dedicated for Refuah Shleima for all of the cholim. To our anonymous sponsor, 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 Devarim 5780: “B’eiver HaYardein” and Beginning Moshe’s Final Address and Rebuke

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Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShavua, Parshat Devarim is being sponsored by Ari and Rivka Stern of Ramat Beit Shemesh dedicated in honor of their children and grandchildren — that they should all be matzliyach to do the Ratzon Hashem and for a refuah shleima for all of the cholim. To the Stern family, many thanks for your sponsorship and for your continued kindnesses and good wishes.

You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring (or as the case may be, co-sponsoring) a Parshat HaShevua. read more

Parshiyot Matos-Masei 5780: Contrasting Shevatim Reuven and Gad and the Daughters of Tzelaphchad

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Shalom Friends;

Our Doubleheader Parshat HaShevua, Matos-Masei is being sponsored by Yosef Moshe and Chana Rosenberg of Ramat Beit Shemesh dedicated in honor of Yosef Moshe’s Bar Mitzvah Parshiyot Matos-Masei and for the health and well-being of their children and family. To the Rosenberg family, many thanks for your sponsorship and 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

Parshat Pinchas 5780: Reflecting on Pinchas and His Kehunah

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Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua Pinchas is sponsored by Rabbi Joel and Shelly Padowitz and dedicated for a full and complete Refuah Shleima for Joel’s Grandfather, Yissachar ben Hindl. To the Padowitz 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

Parshat Balak 5780: How Hashem Compels Bila’am’s Blessings and Why They Revert Back to Curses

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Shalom Friends;

Our Parshat HaShevua, Balak is sponsored jointly by Mutti and Michelle Frankel and Tuvia and Chana Frankel of Ramat Beit Shemesh in honor of their son/brother Eliyahu’s Birthday. To the Frankel family, many thanks for your sponsorship and 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 Shelach and American Jewry in 5780

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Parshat Shelach and American Jewry in 5780

by Moshe Burt

This is a special D’var Torah on Parshat Shelach written due to the explosion of violence in the United States, allegedly due to the killing of George Lloyd, and the subsequent shooting and alleged killing by Atlanta police of Rayshard Brooks.

I am writing in the first person due to what I feel is the gravity of the situation for American Jewry.

In reality, however, the seeds of this violence — the rioting, looting, burning and killing — including its anti-semitic and anti-Israel aspects, have been planted, nurtured and reaped over decades in America’s leftist-Democrat-socialist dominated largest cities, in the country’s universities; on their campuses, among the professors, among student body councils, on pro-sports athletic fields and team managements and in America public schools where young minds are being indoctrinated in socialism, identity politics, trans-genderism and the like almost from the cradle. read more

Parshat Chukas 5780: The Mystery of the Ritual of the Para Adumah

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Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua Chukat is being sponsored by Dov and Bracha Moses of Ramat Beit Shemesh dedicated for a refuah shleima for Rachel bat Chaya Perel, Shmuel ben Rivka and Avraham ben Rivka. To the Moses family, many thanks for your sponsorship and continued kindness.

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 (or as the case may be, co-sponsoring) a Parshat HaShevua. read more

Parshat Korach 5780: What’s Really Behind Shevet Reuven’s Beef Causing Them to Join With Korach?

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Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua Korach is being sponsored by Dr. Eliyahu and Shuli Gherman of Ramat Beit Shemesh and dedicated in honor of the recent Bar Mitzvah of their son Shimon Aryeh.. To the Gherman family, many thanks for your sponsorship and continued kindness.

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 (or as the case may be, co-sponsoring) a Parshat HaShevua. read more