“Everything depends on mazal, “luck”, even the sefer Torah [taken out of the] ark” (Zohar, Parshat Nasso). A shul can have 20 Torah scrolls but may…
Thoughts on a Brit Milah: Tzedek, Tzedek Tirdof
כְּשֵׁם שֶׁנִּכְנַס לַבְּרִית, כֵּן יִכָּנֵס לְתוֹרָה וּלְחֻפָּה וּלְמַעֲשִׂים טוֹבִים” just as he entered the covenant so too may he enter Torah,…
Nitzavim: Water and Wood
"You are standing this day all of you before the Lord your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel: your…