November 2023
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Parsha Pearls: Parshas Balak
Don’t be frumer than the TorahNatural, But Only With MoshiachWhat Pinchas ForesawJust Say No to the Army “Like long streams, like gardens by the river, like spices planted by Hashem, like cedars by the water.” (Bamidbar 24:6) The Seforno on Bereishis 33:4 quotes a Gemara in Taanis 20a: “Faithful are the blows of a friend,…
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Parsha Pearls: Parshas Chukas
Esrogim from Eretz Yisroel may be growing on stolen land!Do Not Fight With the NationsNot Praying Too MuchProtesting for Hashem’s Honor “For Cheshbon was the city of Sichon, king of the Emorites, who fought with the first king of Moav, and took all his land from him, until Arnon.” (Bamidbar 21:26) In Chullin 60b Reish…
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Parsha Pearls: Parshas Korach
For My honor you did not protest!Not Just Anyone Can Interpret the TorahWhen the Wicked Do MitzvosNo Peace for the WickedNot Even a Needle “For My honor you did not protest, but for the honor of a human being you protest!” (Nedarim 39b) The Gemara says (Nedarim 39b) that when Korach stood up and denied…
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Parsha Pearls: Parshas Shlach
The Miraculous Survival of the Jewish peopleThe Zionists’ Success Was PredictedZionism: Fact or Opinion?Hashem Does Not Desire Our WarsThe Hebron Massacre and Its Lesson “And Moshe called Hoshea bin Nun Yehoshua.” The Meforshim ask why Moshe prayed only for Yehoshua י-ה יושיעך מעצת המרגילם and not Kalev. We’re going to arrive at an answer to…
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Parsha Pearls: Parshas Behaaloscha
The Exile of YishmaelDon’t Ask For Unnecessary MiraclesWhy Couldn’t Moshe Make the Menorah?If We Join Them, They Will Be the Winners And Moshe heard the people crying in families, each man at the door of his tent, and Hashem’s anger burned greatly, and in the eyes of Moshe it was bad. (11:10) What is the…
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Parsha Pearls: Parshas Naso
Are the Oaths Interdependent?Who Said the Oaths are Interdependent?Zionism and Sabbateanism Command the children of Israel to expel from the camp every leper, every zav, and everyone unclean from a body… as Hashem spoke to Moshe, so the children of Israel did. (5:2-4). The Midrash explains these verses as an allusion to exile: “Command the…
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Parsha Pearls: Parshas Bamidbar
G-d Filters Out the WickedPeaceful Efforts Toward RedemptionWhen Silence is a Sin And they established their birth to their families, to their fathers’ houses. (1:18) Rashi explains that they brought documents or witnesses to prove their birth, to which tribe they belonged. In Parshas Pinchas (26:5) Rashi says that the gentiles ridiculed the Jewish people,…
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Parsha Pearls: Behar-Bechukosai
Can Living in the Zionist State Be Considered Exile?Giving Up the State Saves LivesEretz Yisroel Prefers Gentile RuleThe Sin of Questioning the Need for ExileThe Desolate Land And if his hand was not able to produce enough [money] to return to him, then his field will be in the buyer’s hand until the Yovel year.…
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Parsha Pearls: Parshas Bechukosai
Giving Up the State Saves LivesEretz Yisroel Prefers Gentile RuleThe Sin of Questioning the Need for ExileThe Desolate Land I will place your corpses on the corpses of your idols. (26:30) The Gemora says (Sanhedrin 63b): “The righteous Eliyahu walked among the people dying of hunger in Jerusalem. He found a child who was swollen…
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Parsha Pearls: Parshas Behar
Can Living in the Zionist State Be Considered Exile? And if his hand was not able to produce enough [money] to return to him, then his field will be in the buyer’s hand until the Yovel year. (25:28) The word “matz’ah” – meaning found, or was able – occurs only a few times in Tanach.…