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  Even with outdoor minyanim already populating our parking lots and backyards, one part of Shavuos will be quite different

Parshas Behar begins with the mitzvah of shemittah, the sabbatical year, when the land of Israel is allowed to rest

  We have lost many special people to the coronavirus, tzadikim and tzidaniyos, righteous men and women. As we turn

  As we approach this week’s double Parsha of Tazria-Metzora, it is impossible to escape the analogy to what we

  The seventh day of Pesach commemorates the splitting of the sea. That glorious final moment when helplessness at the

  This week’s Parsha begins with the mitzvah of machatzis hashekel in which a half of a silver shekel was

  This past week we have been anxiously following the news as the coronavirus continues to spread. It is now

  When I transferred to Ner Israel in tenth grade I faced a number of challenges. Much to my surprise

  In the beginning of this week’s parsha the Torah describes the Jewish people as ascending from Egypt “chamushim”, there

This week’s Parsha begins with the eighth plague, the plague of locusts. After Moshe and Aharon finish delivering their threating