Weekly Parsha Thoughts

The parsha starts off, “See I am giving before you bracha and klalah. The bracha, on condition, that you will listen to the mitzvos of Hashem… that I am commanding you today (as Rashi explains). And the klalah if you don’t listen... Read More

In the second parsha of Shema it says:ושמתם את דברי אלה על לבבכם . The Gemara explains the word ושמתם is made up of two words: סם and תם, remedy and complete. The Torah is compared to סם חיים. Rashi explains it... Read More

The Gemara brings: Rabban Gamliel, Rabi Eliezer ben Azariah, Rabi Yehoshua and Rabi Akiva were going up to Yerushalayim. When they reached the mountain called Tzufim, or were a certain distance from Yerushalayim from which they could see Yerushalayim, they ripped their... Read More

The passuk says, “ and the Emori’im went out… and chased you (Bnei Yisroel) as bees would do.”  Rashi explains that just as a bee dies when it stings a person, so too the Emorim died when they hit Bnei Yisroel. The... Read More

In Parshas Matos the passuk says: Hashem commanded Moshe that Bnei Yisroel should take revenge against the Midyanim.  The passuk ends “and afterwards you shall be gathered into your people.”  This refers to the death of Moshe.  The next passuk says, “and... Read More

The Avudraham brings from a Pesikta: until the 17th of Tammuz the haftaros leined on Shabbos have similarities to the parshiyos. After the 17th of Tammuz the haftaros are according to the time and what happened then. There are three haftaros of... Read More