D’var Torah

Dvar Torah – Bo

Parshas Bo A Generous Dose of Encouragement And they went and they did, the Children of Israel, just as HASHEM had commanded Moshe and Aaron so they did! (Shemos 12:28) They went and they did: The verse credits them even for their going, giving reward for their going as well as for the doing. (Rashi)…

D’var Torah Parshas Vaera

Hiding in the Open Daily By Rabbi Label Lam And G-d spoke to Moshe and said to him; “I am Hashem! I appeared to Avraham to Yitzchok and to Yaakov as El Shaddai, but with My name HASHEM I did not make Myself known to them. (Shemos: 2-3) What’s this whole business with the names…

Dvar Torah – Sukkos

D’var Torah Sukkos Miraculously the Streak Continues By Rabbi Label Lam For a seven day period you shall dwell in booths. Every resident among the Israelites shall live in booths, in order that your generations should know that I had the Children of Israel live in booths when I took them out of the Land…

Yom Kippur

D’var Torah Yom Kippur “What Make and Model is My Kikayon?” By Rabbi Label Lam And Jonah had gone out of the city, and had stationed himself on the east of the city, and there he made himself a hut and sat under it in the shade until he would see what would happen in…

Dvar Torah – Rosh Hashanah

D’var Torah Elul / Rosh Hashanah The Ever-Present By Rabbi Label Lam Rosh HaShana is the birthday of humanity. It coincides with the creation of man. The blowing of the Shofar may well be a reenactment of the blowing of the “breath of life”into the nostrils of the first man, endowing him and his descendants…

Dvar Torah – Parshas Ki Seitzei

D’var Torah Parshas Ki Seitzei A Nice Disguise By Rabbi Label Lam You shall not keep in your pouch two different weights, one large and one small. You shall not keep in your house two different ephah measures, one large and one small. Rather,] you shall have a full and honest weight, [and] a full…

Parshas Shoftim What Makes Us Holy By Rabbi Label Lam If a matter eludes you in judgment, between blood and blood, between judgment and judgment, or between lesion and lesion, words of dispute in your cities, then you shall rise and go up to the place HASHEM your G-d chooses. And you shall come to…

D’var Torah

Parshas Reeh The Only Reason I Have Eyes Is For You! See I place before you today blessing and curse. The blessing that you listen to the commandments of HASHEM your G-d that I command you today, and the curse if you do not listen to the commandments of HASHEM your G-d and you…

What Had to Be Said

D’var Torah Parshas Eikev What Had to Be Said By Rabbi Label Lam …lest you eat and be sated, and build good houses and dwell therein, and your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and gold increase, and all that you have increases, and your heart grows haughty, and you forget HASHEM, your…

D’var Torah

Parshas Vaeschanan How Ironic By Rabbi Label Lam For what great nation is there that has G-d so near to it, as HASHEM our G-d is at all times that we call upon Him? (Devarim 4:8) Now I know that HASHEM has delivered His anointed. He will answer him from His Holy Heavens, with the…

D’var Torah

D’var Torah Parshas Masei Close Enough? By Rabbi Label Lam And you shall not defile the land where you reside, in which I dwell, for I am HASHEM Who dwells among the Children of Israel. (Bamidbar 26:34) …in which I dwell: You should not cause Me to dwell amidst its uncleanness. (Rashi) …for I am…

D’var Torah Parshas Pinchas

D’var Torah Parshas Pinchas Seeing the Symphony By Rabbi Label Lam And Moshe spoke to HASHEM, saying: “Let HASHEM, the G-d of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation, who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may…