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Why Study Torah?

Hundreds of thousands of people celebrated the completion of Shas, perhaps the central work of Torah and the one that gets the greatest attention among those who study Torah. These are active, busy people, and many of them are quite familiar with many of the other works that the world has to offer, they have access to and can afford the greatest products of the West — yet they spent thousands of hours studying the Talmud, and happily came together to celebrate the completion of one cycle of study and the beginning of another one.

The Shechinah Can Only Reside Through Justice
by L. Jungerman

Parshas Pekudei gives a meticulous accounting of the income, that is the donations and expenditures of the Mishkon. We see the measure of responsibility and accountability that Moshe Rabbenu felt so as to acquit himself favorably in the eyes of his fellow men, including the contemporary scoffers and maligners.

The Covenant of the Oral Torah
By HaRav Eliyohu Moshe Ehrentreu

Part II

In the first part, HaRav Ehrentreu noted that we have just finished a collective study of the major work of our Oral Torah. What makes the Oral Torah unique?

Money Talks: Insights into Parshas Shekolim and the Machatzis Hashekel
by Rabbi Daniel Yaakov Travis

Compulsory Kindness

The Torah relates that when Eliezer realized that Rivka was destined to be Yitzchok's wife he gave her two gifts; a ring that weighed a beka, and two gold bracelets that weighed ten selo'im (Bereishis 24:22).

Tried and True Seguloh

The following is a letter I received from a prominent talmid chochom following a droshoh I gave at Beis Knesses Naos Yosef:


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