Out of the fifty-four sidrot in the entire Torah, only six are named after people – Noach, Sarah, Yitro, Korach, Balak and Pinchas and all of them except for Korach are worthy of their moniker being singled out. We can…
“And Moshe called Hoshea the son of Nun Yehoshua” (13:16). The revised name Yehoshua implies Y-ah Hoshia [may G-d save you], symbolizing that before sending the spies on their mission, Moshe prayed on behalf of Yehoshua that G-d should save…
Moshe had a special mission cut out for twelve individuals. They had to be hand-picked and were going on a national mission to search out the land of Israel. The twelve spies set out to search the land of Israel.…
Imagine a school classroom. The school day is nearly finished. The kids are fidgeting and restless. The teacher is still finishing off his lesson. While he is writing on the board, the bell goes. The teacher finishes writing. Seconds later,…
Want to be a servant? Of course not, it’s a tough job right? Well there’s another side to that argument. The number of butlers registered with Greycoat Placements, the servants’ employment agency, has almost doubled to more than 5,000 over…
כִּי יִּהְיֶה בְךָ אֶבְיוֹן מֵאַחַד אַחֶיךָ בְאַחַד שְעָרֶיךָ בְאַרְצְךָ אֲשֶר יְהוָֹה אֱלֹהֶיךָ נתֵֹן לָךְ לֹא תְאַמֵץ אֶת לְבָבְךָ וְלֹא תִּקְפץֹ אֶת יָדְךָ מֵאָחִּיךָ הָאֶבְיוֹן : כִּי פָתחַֹ תִּפְתַח אֶת יָדְךָ לוֹ וְהַעֲבֵט תַעֲבִּיטֶנּוּ דֵי מַחְסרֹוֹ אֲשֶר יֶחְסַר לו :…
Baron Horace Ginzburg was a resident of St. Petersburg in Russia and a person of significant influence there in the latter part of the nineteenth century. It was a solemn Yom Kippur and the Baron was in the great synagogue…
