Divrei Mav

Hi everyone, I hope this helps you go into your Shabbos more prepared and I hope you learn something new! This week’s Parsha is called Parshas Aikev (AY-KEV). The Parsha begins with Moses encouraging the Jewish people to have faith and to trust G-d. He is telling them that if they do what Hashem commands, Hashem will guard and protect them. Moses also tells the Jewish people about the fruit in the land of Israel. There are seven “special” fruits of the land that the land was blessed with. They are: Wheat, Barley, Grapes, Figs, Pomegranates, Olives, and Dates. Moses warns the people that Hashem has given them everything thing they have, and they should never forget Hashem and that they should only use those “gifts” that Hashem has given them L’shma, (LI-SH-MUH) for the sake of heaven. An example of L’shma, is Moses. Moses lived his life L’shma. He led an entire nation of people out of Egypt, took that same nation through the desert battling enemies, he brought them to receive to Tora

Hi everyone, I hope this helps you go into your Shabbos more prepared and I hope you learn something new! This week’s Parsha is called, Va’eschanan (VUH-ES-CHUH-NAN). It is an action packed Parsha. I think it goes over just about everything. For example: The Ten Commandments, the Sh’ma, the obligation to put on Tiffilin (a.k.a. phylacteries,) the mezuzah and much more! I think I mentioned this before but it won’t hurt to review it. The fifth book in the Torah (Devarim) is a review of the travels of the Jewish people, their adventures along the way, and some mitzvos (commandments from G-d) Hashem gave us. And this week’s Parsha does a lot of reviewing. We will be reviewing some of them. The Parsha starts off with Moses speaking to the Jewish people. He was recalling the time when Hashem decreed that Moses would not be allowed to enter into the land of Israel. Moses cried, begged, and pleaded to Hashem five hundred fifteen different ways! Then Hashem said, ENOUGH! Stop asking, you w

Hi everyone, I hope this helps you go into your Shabbos more prepared and I hope you learn something new! This week’s Parsha is called Devarim (DE-VAR-IM). Devarim is the first Parsha and the “title tack” in the fifth book of the Torah. The Parsha begins with a passuk that reads, “These are the words that Moses spoke to all of Israel….” After learning about the exile in Egypt there is an obvious question: if Moses couldn’t speak to Pharaoh, how could he speak to a whole nation? Before we answer the question let me show you the questionable facts. Back in Egypt, Moses wouldn’t speak before Pharaoh (who is one person) because he wasn’t a good speaker. But Moses speaks to the Jewish people often in the desert and the Jewish people are a whole nation of people. (You might think that Moses didn’t want to speak to Pharoh because he was scared of him, but we know that this cannot be because Moses only feared Hashem. A tzadik (righteous man) by the name of Rabbi Mordechai Kats zt”l answ

Hi everyone, I was afraid that you would go into your Shabbos with out knowing this week's Parsha, so I made you this brief summary just for you. I hope you learn something new! We will discuss a little bit of each Parsha starting with Mattos (MA-TOE-SS). Parshas Mattos starts off with the rules of making a vow. It's says that if a person swears, "I will not eat a piece of cake for a whole year!" His words stand. He is obligated to keep his vow. If a woman make a vow in her youth and her father is present and her father doesn't say anything when she makes a vow, she is obligated. But if the father did say something against her vow, it's nullified. Also in a case where a wife swears in the presence of her husband he too has the ability to nullify her vow. If a widow or divorcee swears their word stand. This week's Parsha also speaks about the war the Jewish people fought against the people of Midyan. The Jews, under the military leadership of Pinchas (see P

Hi everyone, I was afraid that you would go into your Shabbos without know this week's Parsha. So I made you this brief summary. I hope you learn something new. This week's Parsha is called, Pinchas (PINN-CHASS.) Pinchas was the name of a Jew who did a very heroic feet which got his name on a Parsha. what he did was in last week's Parsha a Jewish man named Zimri (ZIMM-REE) did a terrible avaira (UH-VAY-RUH) sin. here's what happened, an evil king by the name of king Balak (BUH-LAK) wanted the Jews to be destroyed because of his hatred towards the. He "hired" a powerful magician to curse the Jewish people but Hashem would not let the magician curse them. The king a thought of a plan, his plan was that he would cause the Jewish people to Sinn, causing Hashem to be angry and let the magician curse them. What they did was, they sent beautiful non-Jewish women to get the man to like them, causing the Jews to Sinn (because there is a commandment in the torah not int

I was afraid that you would go into your Shabbos without know this week's Parsha. So I made you this. I hope you learn something new. This week's Parshah (Torah portion) is called Balak (BA- LAAK.) Balak is actually a name of a person in this week's Parshah. Balak was a king of the Moavite nation at the time. A messenger from the camp came to Balak and told him that everyone was scarred that the Jewish people will come to attack them. Balak called a magician by the name of Bilam (BILL-UM.) Bilam was happy to curse the Jews for him. Bilam is called in Hebrew a rasha (RU-SHUH) a wicked person. Bilam And King Balak were traveling to curse the Jews when an angel appeared before them and only Bilam's donkey was able to see it. Out of pure fear the donkey stopped in front of the angel who was holding a spear. Bilam didn't see the angel and began hitting his donkey to start moving again. A nais (NAY-SS) miracle happened and his donkey began to speak to him saying, "WH