Kaddish Wars

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman The events you are about to read are real. The names have been changed to protect the shidduchim prospects...

Rabbi Riskin’s Parsha Commentary Finds Unity In The Shema, The Trinity, And Buddhism

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Chief Rabbi of Efrat and Founder of Ohr Torah Stone, used Parshas Vaeschanon, which introduces Shema and warns against idolatry, as...

Rav Brazil: How to Know if a Song is Rooted in Kedushah

Of the kosher animals listed in this week's parsha, zemer is one of them. The Radak and Rav Saadia Gaon that the zemer is...

How Do We Get To Love?

By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran But which is the stone that supports the bridge? - Kublai Khan   A famous Talmudic episode tells of a prospective convert coming to both...

Rav Moshe Twersky Hy”d On the Parsha

By Rabbi Yehoshua Berman ביום השביעי יהיה לכם קדש שבת שבתון לה’   לה:ב            The Sefer Yereim has a unique opinion that one of the taryag mitzvos is morah Shabbos.  He...

The Gid Hanasheh Incongruity

By Rabbi Yehuda Spitz In this week's parsha, Parshas Vayishlach, after Yaakov Avinu's epic battle with Eisav's guardian angel1, where he got injured in his...

Lying for the Sake of Tzedaka

By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld The posuk in Shmos, Perek Chof gimmel, Posuk zayin says, “Midvar Sheker Tirchok.” The Gemara in Meseches Ksubos, daf yud zayin, amud alef teaches us that when the posuk is telling us to...

Rav Chaim Kanievsky: Remez for Moshiach in this Week’s Parsha

The Gemara (Avoda Zara 9a) says that the world will exist is for six thousand years. The first two thousand were empty before the...

Video: Rav Yisroel Brog: How I Found My Mechutan

Rav Yisroel Brog is the beloved and brilliant rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Tiferes Avigdor in Cleveland, Ohio. Rav Brog is a son of...

The Message of the Japan Disaster

By Rav Shmuel Brazil When cataclysmic occurrences happen in the world the Yid must take careful note and do teshuvah. When they happen back to...

Video: Rabbi Freundlich’s 3-Minute Look at Parshas Vayikra

Matzav.com presents this 3-minute look at the weekly parsha with an eye towards Jewish parenting. The Torah is full of timeless parenting...

Eli Scheller’s Two Minutes on the Parsha

Matzav.com presents an exclusive new feature, Eli Scheller's Two Minutes on the Parsha. With an original approach and unique videography, Eli Shares a...

Free Download: At the ArtScroll Shabbos Table – Chukas 5781

Below you will find this week's edition of the ArtScroll Newsletter, containing inspiration and insight from classic ArtScroll titles. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE PDF. This...

Free Download: At the ArtScroll Shabbos Table – Korach 5781

Below you will find this week's edition of the ArtScroll Newsletter, containing inspiration and insight from classic ArtScroll titles. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE PDF.  This...

Video: Rav Yisroel Brog On Marriage: “A Legacy of…Recipes?!”

Rav Yisroel Brog is the beloved and brilliant rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Tiferes Avigdor in Cleveland, Ohio. Rav Brog is a son of...

Audio: Rav Reisman On Parshas Mattos

The following is a shiur delivered by Harav Yisroel Reisman, maggid shiur in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas and mara d'asra of Agudath Israel of...

The Best Segulah

By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld The posuk in this week’s Parsha teaches us that we should be a “tamim” (accepting) when it comes to Hashem. The Rambam does not count this as one...

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