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David LemmerThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
People confuse Vayikra as just a fly-over book in the Pentateuch, whereas in truth it is part of the story that began at Bereishit. It is the course...
The first Rashi in the Torah notes that the Torah should have started with the commandment of “Hachodesh Hazeh Lachem.” The Mitzvah of renewing...
Let’s start with our physical world. The way we know things in life is that when we want to get from point A to point B we have to travel through...
Have you ever found yourself playing a game on your phone, like Candy Crush or Sudoku, for countless hours over a few days? If so, you would notice...
Does suppressing an emotion mean that we aren’t interested in it at all? We hear of Tzaddikim who could not contain their love toward Hashem, and...
The thing about writing news, current events, or even journaling is, in a sense, keeping the record straight for history. When they look back at...
“And these are the children of Yaakov, Yosef was seventeen years old…” In most cases up until now the Torah tells us the age of a person either how...