Parashas Ki Seitzei, Issue #2011 – By Rabbi Pinchas Winston Friday Night This past Shabbos during a shiur I give on Shabbos afternoons, I was explaining that there will always be an attack from Amalek before a historic influx of Divine light. Amalek attacked the Jewish people in Rephidim before the giving of Torah, and…
There are basically two types of mitzvos, mishpatim and chukim, or judgments and statutes
Rebi Levi bar Chama says in the name of Rebi Shimon ben Lakish: “A person should always incite the yetzer tov to fight against the yetzer hara” (Brochos 5a).
The heel is something we take for granted…until we hurt it. Toes too, but since a heel carries the brunt of a person’s weight each time they step on it, a sore heel makes it very difficult to walk normally.
WHAT DOES IT mean, “patience is a virtue”? As opposed to what? Sure, patience is not the easiest to acquire and often seems lacking in the world,
