Parashas Mattos-Massey, Issue #955 – By Rabbi Pinchas Winston.
So says God: What wrong did your forefathers find in Me, that they distanced themselves from Me, and they went after futility and themselves became futile? (Yirmiyah  2:5)

Parashas Pinchas – Three Weeks, Issue #954 – By Rabbi PInchas Winston.
Pinchas the son of Elazar the son of Aharon the kohen has turned My anger away from the Children of Israel by his zealously avenging Me among them, so that I did not destroy the children of Israel because of My zeal. (Bamidbar 25:7)

Parashas Balak, Issue #953 – By Rabbi Pinchas Winston Bilaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps God will happen to appear to me, and He will show me something that I can tell you,” and he went alone. (Bamidbar 23:3) ISN’T IT AMAZING how history can barely change…

Parashas Chukas, Issue #952‏ – By Rabbi Pinchas Winston

The people quarreled with Moshe, and they said, “If only we had died with the death of our brothers before God!” (Bamidbar 20:3)

Parashas Korach, Issue #951‏ – By Rabbi Pinchas Winston.
RECENTLY A RELATIVE told me about a story I had heard before, though I could not recall where. It was about a man in the camps who had been taken out by Nazis to be hanged. He was asked if there was anything he wanted before he was killed, and he asked for his tefillin, which he was given.