THE MIRACLE ERA      Parashat Tzav introduces the laws of the Korban Todah [Thanksgiving offering] [Vayikra 7:12]. Rashi explains that a Todah offering is brought by “someone who experienced a personal miracle”. Rashi gives an example of one who traveled on the High Seas, or one who travelled through the desert and safely reached […]

Thoughts on Pesach and Aliyat Regel What a wonderful sight. All of Am Yisarel gathering before the Chag of Pesach in Yerushalayim. Before Pesach, untold numbers of Am Yisrael from Eretz Yisrael and broad would gird their loins and ascend to Yerushalyim in fulfilment of the Torah’s command, “Three times during the year shall all […]

KORBANNOT AND TEFILLAH   The Shulchan Aruch (Orach Chayyim, Chapter 98, Paragraph 4) writes as follows: Tefillah takes the place of the Korban. Therefore, we have to be careful that our Tefillah shall be similar to the Korban, that our minds shall be focussed on the prayers, for just as with the Korban the wrong […]

R Chaim Kanievski’s letter   Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky Shlita was born in 1928. He is the son of Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky, known as “the Steipler,” and Rebbetzin Miriam Karelitz Z’l, sister of Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz—the Chazon Ish.   Like his father and uncle, Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky is considered one of the greatest scholars […]