Vayakel 5779 “For six days, work may be done, but the seventh day shall be holy for you – a day of complete rest for Hashem. Whoever does work on it shall be put to death.” (Shemos 35:2) Paragraph The...
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Rabbi Yossi SprungGuarding Health to Guard The Soul
Vaetchanan 5779 “But you shall greatly beware (“v’Nishmartem”) for your souls, for you did not see any likeness on the day Hashem spoke to you at Chorev, from the midst of the fire.” (Devarim 4:15) Paragraph...
Giving Up One’s Life for Kiddush Hashem
Vaeira 5779 The Higher Perspective of the Mitzva of V’chai Bahem – ‘And you shall live by them’. (Danger to life overrides all of the sins in the Torah) ‘The river shall swarm with frogs, and they shall ascend and...
Are Bandages or Hair Implants a Chatzitza for Tefillin?
Tetzaveh 5779 “You shall place the Mitznefes on his head and put the crown of sanctity upon the Mitznefes” (Shemos 29:6) One of the common sha’alos in Hilchos Tefillin is: if a person has a bandage on his head (due to a...
To Give is To Receive
Trumah 5779 ‘Speak to the Children of Israel and let them take for me a portion; from every man whose heart motivates him you shall take my portion.’ ...
Kidney Donation & Bal Tashchis
Shoftim 5779 “When you besiege a city for many days to wage war against it to seize it, do not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them, for from it you will eat, and you shall not cut it down.” (Devarim 20:19...
Where Does the Glycerin Come From?
Shmini 5779 “To distinguish between the impure and the pure, and between the creature that may be eaten and the creature that may not be eaten” (Vayikra 11:47) Glycerin is a very common ingredient in the modern food and...
Are Patient Rounds Bikur Cholim?
Reeh 5779 “You shall follow Hashem your God and you shall fear Him…” (Devarim 13:5) The Gemara (Sotah 14a) derives from the words “You shall follow Hashem” that a person should endeavor to emulate Hashem’s Midos...
Food Allergies, Celiac Disease and Mishloach Manos
Tzav – Purim 5779 “To observe them as days of feasting and gladness, and sending portions to one another, and gifts to the poor.” (Esther 9:22) “What are the obligations of this meal (the Seudas Purim)? A person...
Pikuach Nefesh vs. Shmiras haMitzvos
Pinchas “Therefore say: Behold, I give him My covenant of peace. And it shall be for him and his offspring after him a covenant of eternal priesthood, because he took vengeance for his G-d, and he atoned for the...
