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Torah March 23, 2026
We Are Living the Haggadah
We are a nation of memory. We hold tightly to the past, marking the great turning points in history. The...
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Torah March 23, 2026
Shabbos HaGadol: Present Tense
In a small village near the town of Kolbasov there lived a simple Jew who made his living from the kretchma,...
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Torah March 23, 2026
Teshuvah And Forgiveness
By R’ Mordechai Young In a mesivta, a group of boys got in trouble. One of them went totally overboard and...
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Torah March 23, 2026
The Sanctity Of Life
We all value and protect our lives. The Torah reinforces this by commanding us to not only avoid endangering our...
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Torah March 18, 2026
Never “Stuck” In Israel: Turning Disrupted Plans Into Purpose
By Rabbi Efrem Goldberg In the past few days and weeks, many people have spent countless hours online and on...
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Torah March 18, 2026
Our Aliyah Journal: An Update During War
By Rabbi Heshie and Rebbetzin Rookie Billet We wish to thank those of you who have inquired about our life...
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Torah March 17, 2026
Musings Of A Shliach From Montana
Gavriel ben Dovid davening at shul Have you ever seen those viral videos of Israeli soldiers getting new pairs of tzitzis or tefillin? You know,...
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Torah March 17, 2026
Pesach In Galus
Walking back from shul after Shabbos, one of my congregants lamented that the Pesach tour he had booked in Israel...
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Torah March 16, 2026
All the World’s People
The Torah tells us that when the world’s first Jews, Avraham Avinu and Sarah Imeinu, set off for Eretz Yisrael, they...
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Torah March 16, 2026
The Power Of Humility In Prayer
When I played little league baseball, we were in a competitive league that engaged in stealing bases. During one game,...
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Torah March 16, 2026
Vayikra: Before Hashem, With Hashem
In the Beis Midrash of Rebbe Yitzchak Meir Heschel of Zinkov (d. 1854), the oldest son and successor of Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua...
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Torah March 16, 2026
The Fire Of Torah Ignites Panama At Historic Dirshu Event
Musical inspiration by Naftali Kempeh “Should I tell you a bit more about my first trip to Panama twenty-five years...
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Torah March 16, 2026
Haggadahpalooza: The Unofficial Weirdly Perfect Passover Pop Parody Panoply
By Martin Bodek (Author), Sari Kopitnikoff (Illustrator) Reviewed by Michele Justic The bright yellow pick-me-up for your Seder has arrived...
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Torah March 11, 2026
Silence Is Complicity: When a Spouse’s Words Become Your Responsibility
By Rabbi Efrem Goldberg In the introduction to a recent episode of “Behind the Bima,” Yocheved and I had a...
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Torah March 11, 2026
A Message Of Faith From Rabbi Yitzchak Biton
Rabbi Yitzchak Biton and his wife Tamar lost three of their children in last week’s missile strike in Beit Shemesh:...
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Torah March 11, 2026
The Extraordinary Life Of Rabbi Avraham Zacuto, Rabbi, Astronomer, Astrologer, Mathematician, and Historian
Born in Castile, Spain in 1452, Rabbi Avraham (ben Shmuel) Zacuto studied under the preeminent Spanish Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Yitzchak Abuhav (author of Menoras...
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Torah March 11, 2026
Reflections Of Purim At War
By Moshe Gerstley Hands trembling, windows shaking, the ground quaking, sirens blaring. This is the second time Israel has come...
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Torah March 10, 2026
Credit For A Mitzvah
By R’ Mordechai Young In yeshiva, a friend of mine named Yehuda was wearing his friend’s yarmulke. It had his friend’s...
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