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The Shabbat following Tisha B’Av is known as “Shabbat Nachamu.” The name is taken from the opening word of the week’s haftarah.

To be an idealist you cannot consider the resistance that you may encounter while implementing your dreams. Pure idealism follows the dictates of truth alone. On the other hand, without realistic thinking my dreams would stay in the world of fantasy...

Introduction According to our Sages, See Sifsei Chachamim, Chasam Sofer, Bereishis 37:35, et al. the fact that a person becomes less pained by the loss of a loved one over the course of time is ordained from Above. Otherwise, there would be no way that on...

Introduction Our Rabbis Rashi, Berachos 13b. explain that the words “G‑d is one” in the Shema do not mean only that there is one G‑d, but that G‑d is one throughout all existence, that His unity encompasses the heavens above and all the four directions of...

Introduction The Giving of the Torah was a watershed moment in the world’s spiritual history. With the word Anochi (אנכי) Shmos 20:2; Devarim 5:6. – interpreted by our Sages Shabbos 105a. as an acronym for the Aramaic phrase, אנא נפשי כתבית יהבית, “I wrot...

The second section of the Book of Deuteronomy opens as Moses recalls how he pleaded (Va’etchanan, in Hebrew) with G-d to allow him to enter the Land of Israel. Moses tells the rest of the Jewish people that they will soon enter the land without him. Moses...

Early Designations In a Torah reading filled with many important events, e.g., the repetition of the Ten Commandments and the Shema, one small passage is easily overlooked. The Torah relates that at that time, Moses set aside three cities on the eastern s...

This Torah portion is always read on the Shabbos after the fast of Tishah BeAv, the day of tragedy that is the anniversary of the destruction of the First and Second Temples, the quashing of Bar Kochbah’s revolt, the exile from Spain, and many other distr...

When R. Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev returned home from his first visit with the Maggid of Mezeritch, his father-in-law asked him what he had learned. “I learned that G‑d exists,” R. Levi Yitzchak answered. “Is that all?!” replied his father-in-law. “Why e...

Likkutei Sichos, Vol. IX, p. 61ff. I. The TurOrach Chayim, ch. 428. See also Shulchan Aruch and Ramah 428:8, Tosafos Megillah 31b, and Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Hilchos Tefillah 13:19. states that from Parshas Bereishis until the Seventeenth of Tammuz, “the ...