Hoshana Rabba Made Me A Yid
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Hoshana Rabba Made Me A Yid

Dearest Friends, Hoshana Rabba made me a yid. Let me try to explain. Approximately two years or so after Reb Shlomo ztz’l left this world, my family was visiting the states (we were living at the time in Ra’anana). I was a teenager on a mission – to visit the shul (and home) of the...

Shoftim – A Crucial Shortcut for Judgment Day
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Shoftim – A Crucial Shortcut for Judgment Day

Uteshuva Utefillah Utzedaka Ma’avirin Et Ro’a Hagzeira In just a few weeks, we will be hearing these powerful words, words which send shivers down our spines. At that awesome moment, we pray that all the teshuvah we have done, all the prayers we have uttered and all the tzedaka we have given will remove any...

Everything in Life is a Bracha
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Everything in Life is a Bracha

Everything in life is a bracha, everything is beautiful, everything is good. At least, that is what we are supposed to work on believing. If so, how could our parsha open up by saying “Behold I am placing before you a blessing and a curse”? Does G-d place curses before us? One of the other...

Eyesight of the Day After
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Eyesight of the Day After

Tisha b'Av is only good if you remember it a little bit longer. If the day after Tisha B’av is the same as the day before Tisha b’Av, what good is the whole thing?”

Shabbos Nachamu – I am listening
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Shabbos Nachamu – I am listening

Did you ever experience someone choosing to open their heart and soul to you, and your immediate response is one of feeling anxiety and stress? You begin to think to yourself ‘Am I going to say the right words? Am I going to sound smart? What am I supposed to tell them? What do they...

Bamidbar 5780 – Celebration of Mistakes
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Bamidbar 5780 – Celebration of Mistakes

There is a whole Torah behind the art of falling. We always say that falling down is the only way we learn in life, but is that all there is to it? As we welcome Sefer Bamidar, we are about to learn about some of the greatest people: Moshe, Aharon, Miriam, the spies, Korach… tremendous...

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