Hi Tech Torah Musings: Recent Episodes
Gil Student
Thoughts from the weekly Torah portion about technology based on Jewish thought and law, practice and ethics
Moshe died in order to bring the generation of the desert into Israel. How are those connected? Through three steps, the Parashas Derachim explains the connection and also explains why we feel no special desire to worship idols but biblical generations did.
Does God take into account our future when judging us? Midrashim seem to disagree but the Parashas Derachim explains it all in a very optimistic view of life. SOURCES: Parashas Derachim, no. 4; Shemos Rabbah 5:16; Da’as Zekeinik, Shemos 5:4; Shemos Rabbah 3:4; Bereishis Rabbah 3:2; Shemos Rabbah 2:1; Shemos Rabbah 1:36; Megillah 6a
Did an unethical journalistic report kill Sarah? Maybe not but we have what to learn from her death about the dangers of citizen journalism
Can you close a browser window that has God’s name in Hebrew on it? Sources: Rav Yitzchak Sorotzkin, Rinas Yitzchak, Devarim 27:3 Ein Yitzchak 1:5 Meishiv Davar 2:80 Minchas Chinuch 437:12 Shach, Yoreh De’ah 276:12 Rav Ovadiah Yosef (in his name) https://halachayomit.co.il/he/Default.aspx?HalachaID=1818&PageIndex=3 Rav Ya'akov Ariel https://www.toraland.org.il/%D7%A9%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%91%D7%95%D7%AA/%D7%98%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%92%D7%99%D7%94-%D7%95%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%94/%D7%98%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%92%D7%99%D7%94-%D7%95%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%94-%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%A0%D7%99-%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9F/%D7%A9%D7%9D-%D7%94-%D7%91%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%A9%D7%91/
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This week we begin a new cycle with a new name and focus. This year we will be looking at insights into the weekly Torah portion regarding how to use technology more properly and more effectively
Last week, we finished the full cycle of the Parashah. We will take a break until Parashas Devarim, when we will return with a new format and a new name. You can find Divrei Torah on the parashah in past podcasts throughout the prior year.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Divrei Shaul on the challenge of joy and singing, 2) Rav Ya’akov Kamenetsky on the reason for Sotah procedure, 3) Rav Ya’akov Ettlinger on a Nazir’s sin, 4) HaKesav VeHaKabbalah on lifelong impact of being a Nazir, 5) Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik on the summary of the sacrifices of the Nesi’im. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Ya’akov of Lissa on ensuring the divine promise, 2) Kesav Sofer on over-commitment to career, 3) Beis HaLevi on reducing the support of the Levi’im, 4) Rav Chaim Shmuelevitz on Elazar’s heroic burden, 5) Chazon Yechezkel on the tribe of Kehos. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Divrei Shaul on why to keep mitzvos, 2) Rav Itzeleh Volozhiner on the blessing of bread, 3) Rav Shlomo Ganzfried on the ratios of reward and punishment, 4) Vilna Gaon on underdogs, 5) Rav Shlomo Wolbe on casual fulfillment of commandments. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Maharam Schick on how we know the source of Shemitah, 2) Divrei Shaul on why we rest and the land rests, 3) Kesav Sofer on the punishment for lending with interest, 4) Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl on the impact of oppressive work, 5) Chazon Yechezkel on the double servitude of the Jewish people. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Chasam Sofer on teaching the children, 2) Mabit on the body and soul, 3) Rav Itzeleh Volozhiner on the kohen gadol, 4) Kesav Sofer on why to observe Shabbos, 5) Rav Shlomo Wolbe on staying inside. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Shimon Romm on what it means to be holy, 2) Rav David Pardo on parents and Shabbos, 3) Rav Yehudah Aszod on two types of rebuke, 4) Semak on why to judge someone favorably, 5) Rav Itzeleh Volozhiner on the sister-in-law relationship. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Betzalel Hacohen of Vilna on the double warning against entering the Holy of Holies, 2) Rav Yechezkel Abramsky on the problem of empty vessels, 3) Divrei Shaul on preparing for atonement, 4) Rav Itzeleh Volozhiner on the practices of Egypt and Canaan, 5) Kesav Sofer on the Jews’ higher moral standards. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Toras Avraham on the long impact of negative speech, 2) Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl on the reason for the metzora’s punishment, 3) Taz on the good side of punishments, 4) Tosfos Yom Tov and Divrei Shaul on the almost tzara’as, 5) Meshech Chochmah on dignity and the zav’s korban. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Shlomo Wolbe on the the role of Torah in creation, 2) Chasam Sofer on proper behavior during pregnancy, 3) the Alter of Slabodka on the power of Shabbos, 4) Meshech Chochmah on the central role of kohanim with Tzara’as, 5) Sha’arei Simcha on pure white. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Shlomo Wolbe on the necessary final step in any spiritual endeavor, 2) Rav Yitzchak Volozhiner on Aharon’s qualifications for leadership, 3) Rav Ya’akov Kamenetsky on Nadav and Avihu’s halachic ruling, 4) Divrei Shaul on the death of the righteous, 5) Rav Eliezer Gordon on Aharon’s abstract case. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Kesav Sofer on proper intentions for learning Torah, 2) Eisan Ha-Ezrachi on the sacrifices for the generations, 3) Rav Betzalel HaCohen of Vilna on the fit of the kohen’s clothes, 4) Taz on breaking pots, 5) the Ponovezher Rav on remembering our ultimate ends. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Ya’akov of Lissa on Hashem’s pauses, 2) Maharam Schick on independence and guidance, 3) Taz on the benefits of a sinful leader, 4) the Alter of Slabodka on the lesson from a sinful soul, 5) Rav Yechezkel Abramsky on the source for saying a blessing before eating. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Eliyahu Mishkovsky on two aspects of the Temple, 2) Pnei Yehoshua on Betzalel’s correction of Moshe, 3) Rav Yechezkel Abramsky on the connection between Mishkan and prayer, 4) Rav Shmaryahu Shulman on the partnership to build the Mishkan, 5) Divrei Shaul on why Moshe could not enter the Tent. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Ya’akov from Lissa on why Moshe gathered the Jews, 2) Rav Aryeh Levin on why we work for six days, 3) Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl on why we work for six days, 4) Chasam Sofer on proper Torah study on Shabbos, 5) Divrei Shaul on giving too much charity. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Ya’akov from Lissa on the when the Jews can be counted, 2) Kesav Sofer on why Moshe saw a fiery coin under the heavenly throne, 3) Rav Shimon Romm on how money can be holy, 4) the Alter of Slabodka on the essential nature of sin, 5) Rav Yechezkel Abramsky on a leader’s abilities. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Elchanan Wasserman on the reason Moshe’s name is missing from the parashah, 2) Why the kohen gadol had bells on his clothes, 3) Rav Chaim Volozhiner on how to become wise, 4) Chasam Sofer on when to be stubborn, 5) Meshech Chochmah on the repetition of the kohanim’s sanctity. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Nachalas David on the lack of command to donate to the Mishkan, 2) Rav David Pardo on donating for the right reason, 3) Rav Yosef Karo on the order of building the Mishkan, 4) Meshech Chochmah on the ark’s poles, 5) Rav Avigdor on the uniqueness on of the Mishkan’s table. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Beis HaLevi on the order of the parshiyos, 2) Rav Yechezkel Abramsky on an eye for an eye, 3) Eisan HaEzrachi on oppressing widows and orphans, 4) Rav Itzeleh Volozhiner on blesses food and disease, 5) Maharam Schick on doing and listening. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Divrei Shaul on what Yisro heard, 2) Rav Chaim Berlin on what constitutes higher judicial cases, 3) Chasam Sofer on why Moshe greeted Yisro, 4) Beis HaLevi on how to control desire (do not covet), 5) Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl on seeing the sounds. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Yehudah Aszod on the connection to leaning at the Seder, 2) Rav Itzeleh Volozhiner on Jews singing but not angels, 3) Rav Tzvi Pesach Frank on whether the Third Temple will come down from heaven, 4) Rav Simcha Wasserman on going for more than three days without Torah, 5) Chofetz Chaim on why specifically Yehoshua led the battle. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Netziv on why Moshe should go to Pharaoh, 2) Rav Ezriel Hildesheimer on Pharaoh not seeing Moshe, 3) Divrei Shaul on permissible idolatry, 4) Rav Itzeleh Volozhiner on the outcry over the tenth plague, 5) Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl on the the single law for born-Jews and converts. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Shlomo Ganzfried on the contradiction in the first verse, 2) Rav Shmaryahu Shulman on whether to check the father of a potential shidduch, 3) Beis Yosef on whether Moshe or Aharon was greater, 4) Rav Itzeleh Volozhiner on the real cause of the plague of frogs, 5) Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl on the opposite of God-fearing. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Brisker Rav on Yisro’s reward and Iyov’s sin, 2) Divrei Shaul on the two types of salvation, 3) Ridbaz on the cure to the affliction in Egypt, 4) Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl on Moshe’s hesitations, 5) Taz on why Moshe cared. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Shlomo Wolbe on the beginning of enslavement, 2) Noda BiYehudah on a true chesed, 3) Rav Soloveitchik on the difference between a prayer and a request, 4) Rav Simcha Wasserman on the qualities of a leader, 5) Beis Yitzchak on failed sins. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Yitzchak Sorotzkin on Yehudah’s threat to Yosef, 2) Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl on Yosef’s planned punishment for Binyamin, 3) Beis HaLevi on the difference between judgment and rebuke, 4) Rav Yitzchak Goodman on the right way to be a leader, 5) Rav Shmaryahu Shulman on Ya’akov’s recitation of Shema. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Nachalas David on the significance of the word Miketz, 2) Rav Shlomo Ganzfried on the butler’s harsh words, 3) Maharam Schick on Yosef’s name choice for Menashe, 4) Rav Tzvi Pesach Frank on Reuven’s correction of his brothers, 5) Rav Itzeleh Volozhiner on Yosef’s blessing of Binyamin. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl on the significance of living in Canaan, 2) Rav Shaul Yisraeli on Yosef’s wisdom, 3) Pri Megadim on Yosef’s self-sacrifice, 4) Taz and Rav David Pardo on why Ya’akov could not be comforted, 5) Meshech Chochmah on the butler’s dream. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Moshe Feinstein on preconditions for peace, 2) Rav Ya’akov Ettlinger on sending messengers before you, 3) Rav Yosef Karo on Ya’akov’s detailed instructions, 4) Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik on acting like gedolim, 5) the Taz on the need to prevent future attacks. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) The Beis HaLevi on two reasons to leave, 2) Rambam and Rav Simcha Wasserman on the Jewish future, 3) Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl on leaving in peace, 4) Rav Avraham Erlanger on giving thanks, 5) Maharam Schick on the path to the World-to-Come. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) The Brisker Rav on the intent of mockers, 2) Netziv on the place for prayer, 3) Rav Ya’akov Ettlinger on the nature of blessings, 4) Rav Shmuel Rozovsky on the best way to receive blessings, 5) Chofetz Chaim on when to plan for your legacy. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Ya’akov Kamenetsky on Sarah’s lifespan, 2) The Vilna Gaon on the two words for maybe, 3) Rav Yitzchak Sorotzkin on blessing Hashem for miracles, 4) Divrei Shaul on free will and marriage, 5) Brisker Rav on whether to marry someone due to miracles. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Ya’akov Kamenetsky on Sarah’s lifespan, 2) The Vilna Gaon on the two words for maybe, 3) Rav Yitzchak Sorotzkin on blessing Hashem for miracles, 4) Divrei Shaul on free will and marriage, 5) Brisker Rav on whether to marry someone due to miracles. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Toras Avraham on why journeying to Israel was a test, 2) Maharam Schick on the significance of seemingly random stories in the parashah, 3) Divrei Shaul on why Avraham accepted money from Pharaoh but not from the king of Sedom, 4) Maharshdam on the halachic significance of when the Canaanites conquered the land of Israel, 5) Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl on why Avraham did not pray for Sarah. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Shimon Shkop on Noach’s righteousness, 2) Rav Yitzchak Blaser on Noach’s limited faith, 3) Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl on Noach’s failure to take action, 4) Taz on why the generation of the dispersion thought they were unstoppable, 5) Ksav Sofer on why Haran is identified by his daughters. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Yehudah Aszod on why Torah scholars have to attend sermons, 2) Chofetz Chaim on who is a fool, 3) Rav Yechezkel Abramsky on a hint for Palestinians in the Torah, 4) Rav Ya’akov Kamenetsky on when Mashiach will come, 5) Meshech Chochmah on Moshe’s double sin. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Taz on why Moshe had to die, 2) Rav Yechezkel Abramsky on why to bring children to Hakhel, 3) Chofetz Chaim on the significance today of writing a Sefer Torah, 4) Rav Azriel Hildesheimer on the cycle of time, 5) Rav Ya’akov Kamenetsky on the reason to become a leader. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Divrei Shaul on when curses are meant seriously, 2) Rav Yechezkel Abramsky on the reason to do teshuvah, 3) Vilna Gaon on how to avoid a curse, 4) Rav Yitzchak Blaser on how teshuvah is easy, 5) Rav Yitzchak Blaser on two theories of why we receive reward and punishment. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rambam on who is a Jew, 2) Rav Eliyahu Mizrachi on the meaning of a blessing, 3) Pri Megadim on worshiping G-d without joy, 4) Ksav Sofer on when a minor sin is really the worst sin, 5) Rav Yitzchak Blaser on the lack of a steady income. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Meshech Chochmah on the laws of the captive woman apply, 2) Meshech Chochmah on how we know that the mitzvah to bury applies to everyone, 3) Toras Avraham on the source of Amon and Moav’s obligation to host guests, 4) Rav Ya’akov Ettlinger on how we know we can receive reward in the World-to-Come, 5) Beis HaLevi on how to regain faith. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Raphael HaCohen on the relationship between judgment and tzedakah, 2) Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl on guarding the community, 3) Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik on women’s exclusion from testimony, 4) Vilna Gaon on the dual impact of a bribe, 5) Netziv on atonement for the deceased. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Asher Weiss on the impact of our actions, 2) Rav Yehudah Aszod on why we must destroy idolatry, 3) Beis HaLevi on when we should and should not learn lessons from gentile practices, 4) Oneg Yom Tov on when you can do a mitzvah for financial benefit, 5) Divrei Shaul on why we may not listen to a prophet to commit idolatry. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Ya’akov Ettlinger on when we receive reward for mitzvos, 2) Ben Ish Chai on how Hashem relates to us in punishment, 3) Rav Yosef Karo on when fearing Hashem is easy, 4) Rav Moshe Feinstein on what it means to accept the mitzvos, 5) Rav Tzvi Pesach Frank on how to teach our children. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Maharil Diskin on Moshe as a servant, 2) Rav Archik Bakst on who is really alive, 3) Rav Zalman Sorotzkin on how to permit something previously forbidden, 4) Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld on the connection between loving Hashem and teaching Torah, 5) Divrei Shaul on earning a gift every day. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav David Pardo on when to rebuke, 2) Rav Akiva Eiger on Moshe’s blessing to the Jews, 3) Netziv on what it means when Hashem does not answer our prayers, 4) Taz on the real concern and complaint of the people, 5) Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl on the underlying reason for the destruction of both Temples. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Azriel Hildesheimer on the connection between vows and prophecy, 2) Maharam Schick on Hashem’s revenge, 3) Rav Eliyahu Dessler on Gad’s concern for their animals, 4) Divrei Shaul on the need for details of the desert journey, 5) Toras Gavriel on the families of the split tribe of Menashe. Subscribe to Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashah on your preferred podcast player.
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Beis HaLevi on the Torah’s seemingly wrong explanation for Pinchas’ reward, 2) Chafetz Chaim on why Moshe did not answer Benos Tzelofchad’s question, 3) Ketzos HaChoshen on why the Zekeinim were embarrassed, 4) Rav Zalman Sorotzkin on the proper motivation for leading, 5) Rav Menachem Genack on why the korbanos are discussed in Parashas Pinchas
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. In less than ten minutes: 1) Divrei Shaul on the limits of Bilam’s powers, 2) Maharal on whether Hashem fooled Bilam, 3) Rav Avraham Grodzinski on why Bilam’s donkey was killed, 4) Kesav Sofer on the importance of Yom Tov over Shabbos, 5) Rav Shmaryahu Shulman on the importance of a strong start in the morning
by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. 1) Chasam Sofer on the answer to the challenge of Parah Adumah, 2) Rav Yechezkel Abramski on Moshe’s sin, 3) Rav Moshe Mordechai Epstein on why Moshe did not give a stirring speech, 4) Divrei Shaul on why death in a plague is better than of thirst, 5) Rav Tzvi Pesach Frank on the meaning of “rest in peace”
Five Quick Divrei Torah on Parashas Korach 5781 by Rabbi Gil Student of TorahMusings.com. 1) Maharam Schick on Korach taking truth, 2) Maharit Algazi on Moshe’s 3 commands, 3) Rav Moshe Feinstein on Moshe’s influence, not power, 4) Mabit on Korach’s offering, 5) Meshech Chochmah on the number 14,700
Five quick Divrei Torah on Parashas Shelach 5781. 1) Rav Ya’akov Yosef on two types of sins based on motivation, 2) HaKesav VeHakabbalah on the difference between Meraglim and Tarim, 3) Ksav Sofer on the people’s mistake in following the Meraglim, 4) Rav Soloveitchik on the significance of forgiveness for the converts, 5) Rav Itzeleh Volozhiner on the strength of the Canaanites