Question: Is there a halachic requirement for children to pray three times a day, namely, Shacharit, Mincha, and Arvit? Similarly, is it correct to bring children to the synagogue during the High Holidays? Answer: The Mishnah (Berachot 20b) tells us: “Women, slaves, and children are obligated to pray.” Rashi explains that since the purpose…
Tag: Parashas
KI TAVO THIRD READING
Deuteronomy 26: 16-19 Moses encourages the Jewish people to uphold their covenant with G-d that was forged at the Giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai. In return for keeping the covenant, G-d would hold them especially dear, above His love for all other people. What it means to be “set apart”…
Sfas Emes – Parshas Ki Savo
Parshas Ki Savo By Nosson Chaim Leff Ki Savo, 5631 The Sfas Emes takes as his initial text the following pasuk (Devarim, 26:16): “Ha’yom ha’zeh HaShem Eloke’cha metza’vecha la’asos es ha’chukim ha’eileh …” (“Today, HaShem, your G-d, commands you to do these decrees …”). This pasuk leads the Sfas Emes to draw our attention to…
Parsha Summary – Parshas Ki Savo
Parshas Ki Savo Note: The Shabbos Torah Reading is divided into 7 sections. Each section is called an Aliya [literally: Go up] since for each Aliya, one person “goes up” to make a bracha [blessing] on the Torah Reading. Following the last two Parshios that focused on Justice and the value of individual rights, Moshe…
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…
The war against evil
Synopsis of KI TEITZEI FIRST READING Deuteronomy 21: 10-21 Moses told the Jewish people that after they conquer the Land of Israel from its occupiers, they would be allowed, if necessary, to attack neighboring countries that posed a threat to their security. The war against evil Moses told the Jewish people, “If you go…
Parsha Summary – Parshas Ki Seitzei
Parshas Ki Seitzei Note: The Shabbos Torah Reading is divided into 7 sections. Each section is called an Aliya [literally: Go up] since for each Aliya, one person “goes up” to make a bracha [blessing] on the Torah Reading. In the course of history mankind’s most ignoble times have been during war and conflict. It…
Sfas Emes – Parshas Ki Seitzei
The weekly Sfas Emes is now available in a Sefer. The Seferis called Emes Ve’emunah : A Sfas Emes Companion. This Sefer contains all of the materials in the weekly emails, plus new insights. The Sefer also contains the text in lashon hakodesh on which the Sfas Emes worked to produce his ma’amar. Accessing the…
D’var Torah
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…
Becoming a Fruit-Bearing Tree
Synopsis of SHOFTIM SEVENTH READING Deuteronomy 20:10 – 21:9 Moses to instructs the Jewish people regarding how they were to conduct their conquest of the Land of Israel. Becoming a Fruit-Bearing Tree Moses told the Jewish people, “If you besiege a city…you must not destroy its [fruit] trees.” Our emotions are the measure of our maturity….
Parshas Shoftim Fifth Reading
Shoftim 18:14 Fifth Reading The nations that you are driving out listen to astrologers and stick diviners, but what God has given you is totally different. Ki hagoyim ha’eleh asher atah yoresh otam el-me’onenim ve’el-kosmim yishma’u ve’atah lo chen natan lecha Adonay Eloheycha. 18:15 In your midst, God will set up for you a prophet like…
Sfas Emes
Parshas Reeh By Dr. Nosson Chayim Leff Re’eh, 5633 This parsha begins with a focus on choice. We hear Moshe Rabbeinu saying: “Re’ei a’nochi no’sein lif’nei’chem ha’yom bracha u’klalla”. (ArtScroll: “See. I present before you today a blessing and a curse … “). The Sfas Emes notes that implicit in this pasuk is a key…
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