Making Hope Possible - Mar 27, 2025 - Derashah for Parshat Pekudei/HaChodesh 5785. Infertility Awareness Shabbat, and helping those who are struggling to conceive. We can help people accept hope, by being supportive and by making sure our support is consistent with painful reality. Learning from the Jews' inability to accept Moshe's second message מקוצר רוח ומעבודה קשה.

Shoftim Mini-Shiur Part 69: 11:32-36 - Yiftach's Daughter Emerges - Mar 27, 2025 - A daily mini-shiur delivered via Whatsapp, on the book of Shoftim, in the merit of the soldiers of the IDF, as well as the hostages and the wounded. Yiftach's daughter is the first one out of the house. What happens now? To join the Whatsapp, go to http://tiny.cc/washoftim.

Mah Nishtanah: Understanding the Differences when Erev Pesach is Shabbat - Mar 25, 2025 - A too-quick guide to the early Taanit Bechorim and siyum, the berachah for bedikat chametz, when the sale of chametz takes effect, eating matzah and egg matzah on Shabbat which is erev Pesach, handling seudah shlishit and more.

Makkot 20a-b - Mar 25, 2025 - Malkot for hair violations - pulling out hair in grief for the dead, cutting the corners of the head or shaving the corners of the beard.

Practical Medical Halachah Whatsapp #33 - Chametz in Medicine on Pesach - Mar 25, 2025 - A weekly 5-10 minute Medical Halachah Whatsapp. This installment: Is medicine containing chametz permitted on Pesach? Note: Please consult your doctor for medical advice, and your halachic authority for halachic advice. To sign up for the whatsapp go to http://tiny.cc/wamedical

Shoftim Mini-Shiur Part 68: 11:30-31 - Understanding Yiftach's Vow - Mar 25, 2025 - A daily mini-shiur delivered via Whatsapp, on the book of Shoftim, in the merit of the soldiers of the IDF, as well as the hostages and the wounded. How do we understand Yiftach's vow that whatever mobile entity would emerge from his home would be for Hashem, as an olah? To join the Whatsapp, go to http://tiny.cc/washoftim.

Fourteen Centuries #43: The Riva, Part 1 - Mar 23, 2025 - Biography of Rabbi Yitzchak ben Asher HaLevi, the Riva, considered the first German Tosafist. Note: The history is more overview than granular, and certainly not academic.

Shoftim Mini-Shiur Part 67: 11:23-29 - Failed Diplomacy - Mar 23, 2025 - A daily mini-shiur delivered via Whatsapp, on the book of Shoftim, in the merit of the soldiers of the IDF, as well as the hostages and the wounded. Yiftach completes his diplomatic arguments with Amon - but is ignored. To join the Whatsapp, go to http://tiny.cc/washoftim.

Shoftim Mini-Shiur Part 66: 11:14-23 - Yiftach's first argument - Mar 21, 2025 - A daily mini-shiur delivered via Whatsapp, on the book of Shoftim, in the merit of the soldiers of the IDF, as well as the hostages and the wounded. We begin Yiftach's first argument with Amon: We didn't take your land, we took Sichon's and! To join the Whatsapp, go to http://tiny.cc/washoftim.

Moshe, Betzalel, and the World Zionist Congress - Mar 20, 2025 - Derashah for Parshat Vayakhel 5785. Why does Hashem want Betzalel and Oholiov to create and build the Mishkan, instead of Moshe? And why did Hashem then let Moshe have a role after all in Parshat Pekudei? The importance of a diversity of leadership, as well as inclusion.