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PARSHAS TAZRIA-METZORA 5778

STAM TORAH PARSHAS TAZRIA-METZORA 5778 “THE UNDERLYING EMOTION”[1] For the most part, parshas Tazria details the laws regarding a metzora (one afflicted with tzara’as), while parshas Metzora discusses the purification process of the metzora. As part of that process, the Torah states: “The kohain who is purifying shall stand the man who is becoming purified […]

PARSHAS SHEMINI 5778

STAM TORAH PARSHAS SHEMINI 5778 “PERFECT BALANCE”[1] During my elementary school years at the Yeshiva of Spring Valley, the menahel was Rabbi Yisroel Flam z”l. Each morning following shachris, Rabbi Flam would relate a brief mussar thought to the older students. Whenever a student became a bar mitzvah or put on tefillin for the first […]

PESACH 5778

STAM TORAH PESACH 5778 “THE MORE THE MERRIER”                     During his youth, Rabbi Yisroel Gustman zt’l[1] was a student of Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grozdenski zt’l. On a number of occasions, Rabbi Gustman had the privilege of accompanying his Rebbe on walks through the forest. During their walks they would converse about Torah issues.                    […]

PARSHAS TZAV SHABBOS HAGADOL 5778

STAM TORAH PARSHAS TZAV SHABBOS HAGADOL 5778 “JEWS FOR JUDAISM”[1] Rabbi Elimelech Biderman relates: A person wakes up in the morning and makes himself a cup of coffee. He pours the bitter coffee into a mug, adds some sweet sugar, pours in the boiling water, and then adds some cold milk. He lifts the cup […]

PARSHAS VAYIKRA PARSHAS HACHODESH 5778

לזכר נשמת זקני ר’ אברהם יוסף בן נפתלי הערץ הלוי (ד’ ניסן)  מלכה בת אברהם יעקב הלוי (ג’ ניסן) STAM TORAH PARSHAS VAYIKRA PARSHAS HACHODESH 5778 “FROM WITHIN”[1] Simon Sinek[2] related the following anecdote:  “I was present recently at a large conference where a former undersecretary of defense was invited to speak. He was standing […]

PARSHIOS VAYAKHEL-PEKUDEI PARSHAS PARAH 5778

STAM TORAH PARSHIOS VAYAKHEL-PEKUDEI PARSHAS PARAH 5778 “RELATABLE GREATNESS”[1] Someone once presented the Chofetz Chaim with the Tehillim that had belonged to his mother. The Chofetz Chaim clutched the worn volume close to his heart and, with tears streaming down his cheeks, remarked, “Who knows how many tefillos and how many tears my mother shed […]

PARSHAS KI SISA 5778

STAM TORAH PARSHAS KI SISA 5778 “RELATABLE GREATNESS”[1] After the passing of the beloved Mirrer Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel z”tl, R’ Mordechai Grunwald, executive director of Yeshivas Mir and a close talmid of Rav Nosson Tzvi, was asked to deliver a hesped at the Yeshiva Gedolah of Teaneck. Amongst many stories that he […]

PARSHAS TETZAVEH/ZACHOR PURIM 5778

STAM TORAH PARSHAS TETZAVEH/ZACHOR PURIM 5778 “EXPRESSION OF LOVE”[1]    Rav Meir Goldwicht shlita related the following personal story: “In 1967, I was a young elementary school, student. My father was one of the tzanchanim (paratroopers) who were present when the Kosel was liberated. The afternoon after it was recaptured, he was one of those […]

PARSHAS TERUMAH 5778

STAM TORAH PARSHAS TERUMAH 5778 “NATONAL SOCKETS”[1] Yerushalayim. June 1967. Moshe Amirav, a paratrooper, describes his first moments arriving at the Kosel, shortly after Har Habayis was conquered from the Jordanians, during the Six-Day War: “We ran there, a group of panting soldiers, lost on the plaza of the Temple Mount, searching for a giant […]