A Happy World Transcribed from Tape #371
Author: TorasAvigdor
Parshas Re’eh – The Purpose of Food
פרשת ראה EAT AND REJOICE! In Parshas Re’eh Hashem commands the Am Yisroel to bring korbanos to the Beis Hamikdash: ואכלתם שם לפני ה’ אלקיכם ושמחתם בכל משלח ידכם, ”You shall eat there before Hashem your G-d and you shall rejoice” (12:6-7). To eat and rejoice! Although this may imply singing and even dancing, yet…
Parshas Eikev -Becoming a Man of Prayer
פרשת עקב MOSHE RABEINU DAVENS UP A STORM In this week’s parsha, Moshe Rabeinu describes how he prayed to Hashem on behalf of Aharon his brother after the cheit ha’eigel: ואתפלל גם בעד אהרן בעת ההיא – And I prayed for Aharon at that time” (Eikev 9:20). And a few pesukim later we find the…
Parshas Va’eschanan -Thinking His Thoughts
פרשת ואתחנן THE GREATEST DAY IN HISTORY Among all of the great miracles during our forty year sojourn in the Wilderness, the day of the giving of the Torah towers above all. The exhilarating experience of hearing the Voice of Hashem speaking to us, and experiencing an Awareness of Him is something that has…
Parshas Mattos Massai – The End of the Evildoers
פרשת מטות-מסעי THE REVENGE OF MOSHE RABEINU In this week’s parsha Hakodosh Boruch informs Moshe Rabeinu of his impending death: וידבר השם אל משה לאמר… תאסף אל עמיך – “And Hashem spoke to Moshe saying…You will be gathered into your people” (Mattos 31:3). The successful life of Moshe is now drawing to a close…
Parshas Pinchas – A Career of Seeing Hashem
פרשת פינחס MOSHE ON THE MOUNTAIN In this week’s parsha, at the end of Moshe Rabeinu’s life, we find him standing with the Am Yisroel outside the borders of Eretz Canaan. And although he was so close to the land which he had led his people for forty years, Hakodosh Boruch Hu told him…
Parshas Balak – Speaking the Praises
פרשת בלק SHEMA YISROEL… VA’YAR BALAK BEN TZIPOR We read Parshas Balak this week and we don’t even realize that it is one of the most fundamental parshiyos in the entire Torah. And I’ll prove it to you. Listen to these words from a gemara in Brachos (12b). It says there: בקשו לקבוע פרשת בלעם…
Parshas Chukas – The Reality of The Next World
פרשת חקת THE MYSTERIOUS PARAH ADUMAH The taharah process of the parah adumah with which this week’s parsha begins, has been forever one of the most mysterious procedures found in the Torah. Even Shlomo Hamelech, the wisest of all men, said about it: אמרתי אחכמה, והיא רחוקה – “I thought to understand it, but it…