One of the most interesting aspects of this Shabbat preceding Pesach is its name which we usually translate to mean the Great Shabbat. However this leaves us with a number of questions. Why then is the masculine adjective ha-gadol used,…
A few days ago I was shown an article of how a fourteen year old child Suvir Mirchandani calculated that he could save the US government 234 Million Dollars a year! That’s a lot of money, and I read on…
Have you ever been in a group having a conversation, when you notice that the person that is speaking the most might be speaking a lot but deep down there seems to be no meaning emanating from him? Some people…
At the beginning of the perashah the Torah teaches us the laws concerning a lady who gives birth. After waiting the prescribed time for purification, she must bring an offering of a sheep, and a dove or a pigeon. The…
We live in a privileged generation. Whereas our grandparents found it hard to keep a kosher home, we are spoilt for choice. Kosher outlets and restaurants are opening across the country, food is being produced with flavours that were unheard…
There is an interesting contrast between the language used when Hashem instructed Noach to take the animals with him into the ark, and that which is used in our parsha when explaining the laws of kashrus. Regarding Noach the Torah…
We live in the billion generation. A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but let’s try to put that figure in perspective: A billion seconds ago, it was 1959. A billion minutes ago, the Roman Empire was in full…
