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About Learning Kabbalah

About a year ago I was asked a question on the Quora site. Here is the question and what I answered: Q. Where are some places where I can study Kabbalah (not including the Kabbalah center)? Where are some places where I can study the Torah? I am an Indian Christian in NJ looking to…

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About “The Egg” By Andy Weir

An associate, colleague, with whom I work, sent me for my perusal the short story by Andy Weir called “The Egg”. I am not going to copy it here, as I hold it to be more science fiction than what it’s supposed to be. And I responded to my colleague as follows: This story would…

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Parshas Beshalach – About The Slav

In the Parshas HaMan, it mentions that G-d will give them basar in the evening, and lechem in the morning. Then in the next posuk it identifies that the basar being referred to is the slav. I imagined that just like they had the Man (the manna) the whole 40 years, they also had the…

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Parshat Bo

It came to me this year during the reading of Parshat “Bo el Pharaoh”, an innovative thought that I never considered before. At the beginning of the Parsha, Moshe and Aharon warn Pharaoh about the eighth plague of locusts, they gave the warning, turned around, and walked out. Then Pharaoh’s advisers urged him to reconsider…

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Parshat Vayairah – An Important Principle in Mitzva Observance

At the beginning of Parshat Vayairah the Torah relates that three Heavenly angels disguised as simple guests came to Avraham Avinu. Avraham was a master at Hachnosas Orchim (hospitality), and he immediately brought them in and started to quickly prepare for them a meal to eat. The Torah says that Avraham chose a calf and…

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Parsha Braisheit

I always wondered, in the third day it says that G-d commanded that the earth should bring forth grasses etc. and fruit trees. Aitz pri oseh pri, Rashi brings from the words of Chazal that Aitz Pri implies that the taste of the tree should be like the taste of the fruit. And that the…

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A Difficulty With The Ohr Hachaim Hakadosh At The Beginning Of Sefer Shemos

One of my students in our Torah Mastery course asked me this month the finest question that I’ve ever received over the last five years since Torah Online was founded, and was victorious in my favorite game, “Stump the Rabbi”. In the first lesson of Torah Mastery I said over a piece from the Ohr…

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Tisha B’av and Moshiach

Another question from one of my students: Q. (On my Parshat Devarim Answer Page): About what you wrote in your email when you sent us the Answer Page: What I am inspired about from your words is that what we are missing is Moshiach. Once we get unified on that point, pray and fast for…

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On Eating Meat

I was asked today by one of my students: Q. I’m Vegetarian for Over ten years, and so I don’t understand about the meat that was eaten in the Holy Temple. I answered her: A. In brief, because this is really a very broad subject: We have to eat because that is the way the…

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My Preparations For Pesach

Table Of Contents of my Passover Articles   The Haftorah For Shabbos HaGadol, Serving G-d and Not Serving Yourself We’re Leaving Mitzrayim, Are You In? Why We Need The Symbols Of Slavery Also on the Table The Second Half Of Maggid Starting With “Metchila Ovday…” The Seder Night As the Vehicle of Passing Over the…

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