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...
Double Double
By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
Why does the Navi Yeshaya use the lashon of Nachamu twice? Rabbeinu Bachya explains the reason is because everything is midda kneged midda. The Jews sinned double and...
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...
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...
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...
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: 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Watch: Shiur by Rav Michoel Sorotzkin On “Yehoshua Bin-Nun or Ben-Nun” in Honor of...
The following is a shiur from Rav Michoel Sorotzkin about names in the Torah.
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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...
Audio: Rav Soloveitchik on Inyonei Megillas Esther
The following is a shiur that was delivered in 1969 by Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik of Boston on inyanei Megillas Esther.
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