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Parshat Bamidbar 5778
Rabbi Jablinowitz
There is a disagreement between Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Yehoshua how one should spend Yom Tov. Rabbi Eliezer posits that one spends Yom Tov either exclusively involved in spiritual pursuits, sitting and learning in the Beis Medrash, or he can spend it exclusively in the physical pleasure of eating, Read more...
Parshat Matos
Rabbi Jablinowitz
We read in the first pasuk in this week's parsha, Vayedaber Moshe el Rashei HaMatos Livnei Yisrael Lamor. Moshe spoke to the heads of the tribes and to Bnei Yisrael as well, teaching them the laws of Nedarim. Rashi brings the words of Chazal who say that this was true of all the mitzvos th Read more...
Parshat Masei
Rabbi Jablinowitz
This week’s parsha begins with a discussion of the journeys of Bnei Yisrael through the desert. The commentators give different reasons for the necessity to repeat the listing of the different places Bnei Yisrael encamped during their sojourn through the desert. The Medrash Rabbah on our parsh Read more...
Parshat Naso 5777
Rabbi Jablinowitz
The Medrash Rabbah on our parsha darshens the pasuk in Mishlei (Chapter 15, Pasuk 3), Yekarah He Me'Peninim, It is more precious than pearls. Shlomo HaMelech praises Torah as being more valuable than precious pearls. The Medrash goes even further and states, Me'Kohen Gadol Hanichnas Lifnai V'Lifnim; Read more...
