פרשת כי תישה / ט”ז באדר א’ תשפ”ב
The entire nation was punished for the sin of the Golden Calf. This is astounding when we realize that it was only a minority that committed the sin. Why was the whole nation punished? To teach us that silence in the face of evil is complicity in in evil.
פרשת כי תישה / י”ד באדר א’ תשפ”ב
The ultimate defeat of evil is not just to survive but to survive in a way that shows they failed to destroy your humanity. As long as you follow God’s commandments evil is defeated. As long as a Jew celebrates being Jewish then the Nazis have been defeated again.
פרשת כי תישה / י”ג באדר א’ תשפ”ב
The commandment that every man donate a half shekel seems to ignore the fact that there are some in society that can donate a lot more and that there are those who would have difficulty finding this money. But the Torah wants to show that we are all equal regardless of our place in society.
פרשת תצוה / י’ באדר א’ תשפ”ב
This is the only Parsha from the beginning of Exodus until the end of the Torah, in which Moshe’s name is not mentioned. There are two reasons for this. Today we explore those reasons.
פרשת תצוה / ט’ באדר א’ תשפ”ב
The first thing in the Kohen Gadol’s (The High Priest) job is to clean the Menorah. Why couldn’t he delegate this dirty job to a lesser? The answer is that no one is above doing the right thing. Your position does not exclude from your duty to God and man.
פרשת תצוה / ח’ באדר א’ תשפ”ב
The way that the Kohanim, (priest), presented themselves had to do with making the Mishkan, (Tabernacle), special to the average Jew coming to bring his Korban, (sacrifice). By making it an event we are avoiding making it mundane or common.
פרשת תצוה / ז’ באדר א’ תשפ”ב
The clothing of the kohanim (Priests) was simple and uniform. This is to teach them that they are merely servants to God and the people. That they are interchangeable. They are to be humble in their office.
פרשת תצוה / ו’ באדר א’ תשפ”ב
The breastplate sits on the High Priest heart to remind him to feel the pain of those who are suffering as well as the joy of those who succeed in life.
פרשת תרומה / כ”ט בשבט תשפ”ב
In this week’s parsha God commands that we build a tabernacle for the purpose that He should dwell among us. We can understand this when we combine the previous commands from last week. We bring God into the world through Godly behavior.
פרשת משפטים / כ”ו בשבט תשפ”ב
The commandment for the court to execute a murderer for his crime shows that the Torah does not rely on karma but on us to do the right thing. Also, that doctors are commanded to cure the sick regardless of what they think of them teaches this concept.