CLOSENESS TO HASHEM CHAPTER TWELVETHE GREATNESS ACQUIRED THROUGH TORAH STUDYPart 1: A major feature of Torah study is that everyword one studies, one fulfils a positive mitzvah andmerits awesome reward. In the book ‘Shenot Eliyahu’ of the Vilna Gaon [which is anexplanation to the mishnayot, printed in at the back of someeditions] on massechet Peah…
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Parashat Mishpatim / פרשת משפטים
There is a strange—little spoken about—law that my mind, particularly over the last few months, keeps re-visiting. The Talmud teaches that when one builds a synagogue or house of study the structure should preferably have windows (BT Berakhot 34b). Indeed, this idea is codified as law in the foundational legal code, the Shulhan Arukh (OH…
ADV Parsha Mishpatim
שבת שקלים משפטים בס “ד Parshas משפטים is jammed packed, besides the many mitzvos that are written in it. This Parsha is the conclusion, the נעילה of the ימי השובבים, in a regular year. It is also the first of the four Parshios that are read surrounding the great י”ט of Purim- שקלים. It is…
Parashat Yitro – A Truly Correct Judgement
From HaGaon Rav Zevadia HaCohen Shlit”a, The Head of the Batei Din in Tel Aviv(translated by our dear friend Rav Daniel Levy Shlit”a, Leeds UK) This Shabbat we shall read about Yitro, Moshe Rabbeinu’s father-in-law, who saw his son-in-law Moshe Rabbeinu adjudicating the people’s cases from morning until evening. He advised him how best to…
1st Century Truth
THE BIBLE BOOK OF JACOB / YA’AKOV (name changed by King James of England 1611 & the Church of England to “JAMES”& Wycliff)“Ya’akov (James) served as the chief Rabbi of this early Messianic Jewish community centred in Yerushalayim.He was a Torah teacher par excellence, spokesman for the entire community, and chief halakhic judge and authority…
The World Turned Upside Down – Ve’na’hafoch Hu
“What if the world suddenly flipped upside down?” asked a curious Quora contributor just over 4 years ago. This question was categorized as a “Hypothetical Planetary Science Scenario,” but last year alone has taught us that this is not a hypothetical scenario, nor is it strictly a physics question. In North America, just around the…
DIVREY YA’AKOV Lesson 11
CHAPTER ELEVENMITZVOT BETWEEN MAN AND HIS FELLOW Mitzvot between man and his fellow are of the basics ofJudaism. This means to endeavor to benefit another, and to takecare not to cause suffering to one’s fellow, as it says in thegemarah in massechet Yevamot that mercilessness and lovingkindnesses are the purpose of Yisreal – see inside…
ADV Parashat YISRO
A world of knowledge and information to help you grow and share your faith. בס”ד יתרו The purpose of creation was for כלל ישראל to receive the Torah. The question is why is this momentous Parsha, named יתרו? And why was Yisro זוכה to have the Parsha of מתן תורה named after him? Parshas Yisro…
Binding and Loosing, First-Century Style
By Pinchas Shir -September 13, 202011662 201In Matthew’s Gospel Yeshua said to his disciple Peter, “I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven” (Matt 16:19). A couple of chapters…
Parashat Yitro / פרשת יתרו
YISRO Torah Reading: YISRO Exodus 18:1-20:23 WE ARE ALL CONVERTS It is fitting that the parashah which tells of the Giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai is named after Yisro (Jethro), Moses’ father-in-law — a convert. Indeed, all those who witnessed the Giving of the Torah were “converts”. Thus (as noted in the commentary…
DIVREY YA’AKOV Lesson 10
CHAPTER TENANY TORAH STUDY AND MITZVAH PERFORMANCEJOINS THE SOUL WITH HIS CREATOR AND BRINGS ASPIRITUAL AND HOLY BOUNTY FROM HASHEMAN ANSWER FOR THOSE WHO CLAIM THEY DON’TFEEL THIS It is written in numerous places in this work how for bit ofTorah that a person learns, and through every mitzvah that aperson performs, a spiritual bounty…
Parashat Beshalach / פרשת בשלח
Seven days after the Exodus from Egypt, which we read about last week, the nation stood on the shores of the Red Sea and expected redemption. The sea blocked their route ahead of them and the Egyptian army with its speedy chariots threatened them from behind. There was no escape. And just when they felt…
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