Vayeishev/Chanuka: Olives and Oil ~ Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein
Olives and Oil During these days of Chanuka, everybody is talking about the miracle of the Menorah and the jug of shemen zayit zach (pure...
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yehoshua steinberg
- Mar 31, 2021
- 5 min
Mikeitz: Chanukah wisdom ~ Wonders of The Holy Tongue
Article abstract: In the Torah portion Miketz, the word "חכם" (wise) appears for the first time in Scripture - used by Pharaoh to...
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yehoshua steinberg
- Mar 30, 2021
- 5 min
Mikeitz/Chanukah: Playing with Fire ~ Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein
Playing with Fire When telling of the future downfall of the descendants of Esau, the prophet Ovadiah (Obadiah 1:18) refers to the House...
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yehoshua steinberg
- Jun 30, 2020
- 12 min
Terumah/Yom Kippur: To Cover up or to Clean Up, That is the Question ~ Yehoshua Steinberg
Article abstract for Parashat Terumah: This week's Parashah acutely delineates the makeup and measurements of the Tabernacle and its...
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rabbircklein
- Jun 29, 2020
- 5 min
Terumah/Rosh Chodesh Adar: The Beauty of Adar ~ Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein
This week ushers in the month of Adar in all its glory. Like all the months of the Jewish calendar, the name Adar is derived from the...
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rabbircklein
- May 30, 2020
- 3 min
Tetzaveh/Purim: For Crying Out Loud ~ Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein
When Esav found out that the blessing from his father Yitzchak had been given to Yaakov, Esav “cried out a great and bitter cry” (Genesis...
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Reuvan Chaim Klein
- Sep 29, 2019
- 3 min
Tazria-HaChodesh: Old Month versus New Month ~ Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein
This Shabbat we read Parshat HaChodesh, the last of four special Torah readings before Pesach. Parshat HaChodesh establishes Nissan as...
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rabbircklein
- Apr 29, 2019
- 3 min
Behar: Words of Redemption ~ Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein
The end of Leviticus speaks about different forms of redemption in the legal sense. It mentions the rights — or even commandments — of...
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yehoshua steinberg
- Oct 31, 2018
- 7 min
Behaalotacha: Pesach Sheni, Absent-Minded Passover? ~ Yehoshua Steinberg
This week's Torah portion discusses the highly unusual opportunity to fulfil a biblical precept -the Passover offering- who's...
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yehoshua steinberg
- Sep 30, 2018
- 5 min
Shelach/Yom Kippur: Pardon Me? ~ Yehoshua Steinberg
Shelach: Pardon Me? לע“נשלמהבנימיןבןרפאלתנצב“ה Three words are used to generally describe forgiveness and atonement: סליחה, מחילה, כפרה....
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yehoshua steinberg
- Dec 26, 2016
- 3 min
Chanukah: Spinning in Concentric Circles ~ Reuven Chaim Klein
Long before the fidget spinner became the world’s favorite pastime, Jewish children played with spinning tops on the holiday of Chanuka....
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yehoshua steinberg
- Dec 7, 2016
- 3 min
Chanukah: Chinuch and Chanukah, Walking with Hashem ~ Tzvi Abrahams
Chanukahחַנֻכָּה Chinuch and Chanukah, Walking with Hashem חִנוּךְ: beginning חַנוֹךְ: Chanoch חִנוּךְ: education חַנֻכָּה: Chanukah...
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yehoshua steinberg
- Oct 2, 2016
- 4 min
Yom Kippur: Degrees of Sin ~ Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein
Throughout the Yom Kippur services we repeatedly confess our sins and beg for forgiveness. In doing so, we mimic the confessionals of...
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rabbircklein
- Oct 1, 2016
- 4 min
Coronavirus: Plague of Plagues ~ Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein
The fifth plague that G-d had wrought upon the Egyptians is known as dever. In English this word is commonly translated as “pestilence”,...
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yehoshua steinberg
- Sep 25, 2016
- 8 min
Rosh HaShannah: A Tale of Two Beginnings ~ Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein
The Mishnah teaches that on Rosh Hashana all the inhabitants of the world pass before G-d like the animals of a corral, and G-d passes...
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yehoshua steinberg
- Sep 21, 2016
- 3 min
Sukkot: Gog’s Impervious Roof Versus Israel’s Flimsy Thatched Sukkah ~ Yehoshua Steinber
Sukkot: Gog’s Impervious Roof Versus Israel’s Flimsy Thatched Sukkah (The following is in the main an adaptation of Rabbi S. R. Hirsch’s...
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yehoshua steinberg
- Sep 20, 2016
- 9 min
Rosh Hashanah: The Shofar’s Blast and Satan’s Crash ~ Yehoshua Steinberg
The Talmud(1) states: למה תוקעין ומריעין כשהן יושבין, ותוקעין ומריעין כשהן עומדין? כדי לערבב השטן. Why (do the Jews) blow the shofar...
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rabbircklein
- Sep 1, 2016
- 6 min
Shavuot: The Festival of Weeks ~ Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein
The Festival of Shavuot is known under many different names. Although these names are all synonyms for the holiday, each name focuses on...
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rabbircklein
- Sep 1, 2016
- 6 min
Pesach: Jumping for Joy! ~ Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein
The Hebrew name for the holiday of Passover is Pesach. The Paschal Sacrifice with which the holiday is associated is likewise known as...
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yehoshua steinberg
- Jul 3, 2016
- 3 min
Shavuot: Sinai by Another Name ~ Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein
We are all probably familiar with the name of the site of the greatest mass revelation of G-d’s existence — Mount Sinai. However,...
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