Dvar Torah - The Three Weeks

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Rabbi Label Lam and Torah.org?

So that through them The האור Light, רפואה The Healing and The ואהבה Love of ישועת יהוה Yeshuath YHWH may come back to הארץ The Land of Israel?

Dvar Torah         by Rabbi Label Lam         Print Version
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The Three Weeks To My Very Last Breath Last year I was invited to speak at a local Holocaust Museum in Rockland County on Tisha B’Av. I was reminded that Tisha B’Av is the Holocaust Museum of the Jewish People in time. Remembering not just what happened but what we must yet do remains our holy mission as survivors. The following letter, from the darkest archives, I believe blazes a path through the ashes and resonates with those of us who are parents of children and children of parents.

Rabbi Zweig - Parshios Matos & Masei

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Rabbi Zweig on the Parsha         by Rabbi Yochanan Zweig         Print Version
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Parshios Matos & Masei Not Our Pets "They approached him and said, 'Pens for the flock shall we build here for our livestock and cities for our small children.'" (32:16) After conquering the lands of Sihon and Og on the eastern side of the Jordan River, the children of Gad and the children of Reuvein approached Moshe. They requested this land as their share of Eretz Yisroel to build pens for their animals and cities for their children[1]. When Moshe reviewed their request he transposed the two needs stating "you shall build cities for your children and pens for your animals[2]." Rashi points out that Moshe was criticizing them for their flawed priorities, placing concern for their livestock before their children[3]. How could the generation entering the land of Israel who were taught Torah by Moshe himself have had such distorted values, as to place the concern for their livestock ahead of their own children?

Legacy - Parshios Matos & Masei

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Legacy         by Rabbi Naftali Reich         Print Version
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Parshios Matos & Masei The Age Of Experience "Man was born to toil," said Iyov, and indeed, how we toil! We seem to be under constant pressure, ever working to provide for ourselves and our families while trying to find time to enjoy the fruits of our labors. But did you ever notice that when we attempt to relax, it sometimes can be difficult to apply the parking break? While attempting to unwind, we tend to become restless, straining to return to the world of activity and achievement. And this makes us ask why we are so compelled to always occupy ourselves. Why, when we finally do have a chance to relax, do we find it so difficult to detach ourselves from the throb and hum of our daily lives?

Netziv: Davar B'Ito - Parshios Matos & Masei

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Netziv: Davar B'Ito         by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein         Print Version
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Parshios Matos & Masei A Winning Strategy1 Avenge the Bnei Yisrael against the Midianites. Afterwards, you will be gathered unto your people. Why are we told that Moshe’s death hinged on the military campaign against Midian? More importantly, why was Moshe told this in advance?

AZAMRA Bible: Jeremiah 43-44

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BS"D KNOW YOUR BIBLE: Jeremiah 43-44
Study Notes by Avraham ben Yaakov

JEREMIAH CHAPTER 43

After the conclusion of Jeremiah's answer to the remnant of Judah that they must remain in Judea and not seek safety in Egypt, where they would surely be destroyed, the people brazenly accused him of prophesying falsely simply because he had told them the opposite of what they wanted to hear.

V 3: "For Baruch ben Neiriyah has set you against us…" It is not clear why Yohanan ben Kareyah and his band suspected Baruch ben Neiriyah, who was Jeremiah's foremost disciple and who had played a most prominent role in Jeremiah's contacts with the kings of Judah (Jer. 36:4ff and 38:7, see Rashi there). Metzudas David (on Jer. 43:3) suggests that Yohanan's faction had had some dispute with Baruch and suspected that he persuaded Jeremiah to urge them to remain in Judah in order that they would fall into the hands of the Babylonians.