Parshas Bamidbar 5778
Cling to a Rebbe By Rabbi Moshe Krieger, Yeshivas Bircas HaTorah A peculiar list of descendants appears in this week’s parsha. “And these are the […]
Parshas Bechukosai 5778
Torah’s Inexplicable Effect On Us By Rabbi Moshe Krieger, Yeshivas Bircas HaTorah This week’s parsha opens with a seeming repetition: “If you will go in […]
Parshas Bahar 5778
The True Owner By Rabbi Moshe Krieger, Yeshivas Bircas HaTorah In this week’s parsha, we are introduced to the shmitta, a year-long mitzvah in which […]
Parshas Emor 5778
Free Will – Our Battle Front By Rabbi Moshe Krieger, Yeshivas Bircas HaTorah This week’s parsha discusses numerous korbanos. Among them is the korban Todah, […]
Parshas Acharei Mos-Kedoshim 5778
Precious Fences By Rabbi Moshe Krieger, Yeshivas Bircas HaTorah In this week’s parsha appears the basis for all Rabbinic decrees, such as muktzeh, yichud, stam […]
Parshas Vayikra – Hachodesh 5778
Making the Exodus Real By Rabbi Moshe Krieger, Yeshivas Bircas HaTorah On the first Shabbos of the month of Nissan, we read “Parshas Hachodesh,” which […]
Parshas VaYakhel-Pekudei Parah 5778
How Parah Adumah Atones By Rabbi Moshe Krieger, Yeshivas Bircas HaTorah We read Parshas Parah on the Shabbos before Rosh Chodesh Nissan, to declare that […]
Parshas Ki Sissa Purim 5778
What Are We Dancing About On Purim? By Rabbi Moshe Krieger, Yeshivas Bircas HaTorah In Megilas Esther (8:16), it states that “the Jews fulfilled and […]
Parshas Tetzaveh – Zachor 5778
Why remember Amalek? By Rabbi Moshe Krieger, Yeshivas Bircas HaTorah Every year on the Shabbos before Purim, we read Parshas Zachor, which relates how after […]
Parshas Teruma 5778
The Lessons of the Keruvim By Rabbi Moshe Krieger, Yeshivas Bircas HaTorah In Parshas Teruma, Klal Yisrael is commanded to construct an edifice that will […]