Parsha with Rabbi David Bibi

 Ki Tavo El HaAretz - When you come to the land and celebrate the first fruits.     Our newlywed children Mariyah and Moshe moved into their apartment this week and were busy building plant racks for the balcony and arranging things. Mariyah sent me a picture after shopping at Machaneh Yehuda of her new refrigerator stocked with fruits and vegetables and it was so apropos consi...

The other boy laughed and asked, 'Ma, what do you think? That this is Pesach? Ma, it’s not the Seder! Why such a big deal over some foods that we don't want to eat anyway? Do you really think it matters?'       You tell him to wait one more minute. You pull out from your bag a jar of honey and some sliced apple and as you dip the apple into the honey you state aloud, may it be...

How do we understand the concept of serving Hashem with joy?   Is there really a misvah gedola lihiyot besimcha tamid?   How do we define simcha ?   David corrected Michal his wife, daughter of Shaul's misconception concerning the meaning of simchah in the service of Hashem. He emphasized that this type of simchah must be expressed physically and outwardly—even if it means that one...

  “When you go out to the war against your enemies, and the L-RD your G-d delivers HIM into your hand and you capture HIS captive     And you see among the captives a beautiful woman and you desire her and would take her to wife,     How can the Torah permit soldiers raping and capturing women in battle and keeping them against their will? It seems so inconsistent with so...

Shoftim Eglah Arufah 

Rabbi Akiva - Miriam  Rav Dessler Mussar  Raising Children

 Rashi to Avot 3:15'Freewill is given': It is given into the hands of each human being, as it says, 'See, I have set before you this day life and good...'     

הַמַּֽאֲכִ֨לְךָ֥ מָן֙ בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־יָדְע֖וּן אֲבֹתֶ֑יךָלְמַ֣עַן עַנֹּֽתְךָ֗ וּלְמַ֙עַן֙ נַסֹּתֶ֔ךָלְהֵיטִֽבְךָ֖ בְּאַחֲרִיתֶֽךָ׃    Manna From Heaven The One Who feeds you manna in the desert…in order to test you. (Devarim 8:16)   Rabbeynu Bachya , ” All the tedium the people experienced during their trek in the desert was designed to subject them to a test to...

Based on Shvilei Pinchas  WithHis 515 Entreaties Moshe Rabeinu Broke through Every Barrier Thereby Paving the Way for All of Yisrael’s Tefilos to Reach the Kisei HaKavod  

The Keli Yakar explains: We have found that sometimes Hashem compares Israel to the stars and sometimes to the sand on the shore of the sea …. As in times of tranquility and success, He compares them to the stars. That is an expression of greatness, as Rashi explains in this weeks Perasha. And the comparison of the sand indicates the time when the nations rise up against Israel to destroy them, bu...

 RASHI: וימסרו SO THERE WERE HANDED OVER … [A THOUSAND OF EVERY TRIBE] — This serves to tell you in what high esteem the shepherds of Israel meaning the Leaders - were really held — how dear they were to Israel .   Up until they had heard of his approaching death what does it state? That Moses felt constrained to exclaim about them, “They are almost ready to stone me”! (Exodus 17:14) . B...

  A Segulah for Protection     The portion of Pinchas includes the readings of all of the holidays of the year. The renown Gaon and MeKubal , Rabbi Chaim Palagi in his sefer Refuah VeChaim 12/46 – (Healing and Life) brings an incredible segulah. The Rabbi explains that the reading of these perekin 28 and 29 is a protection against judgment, and specifically with regard to court and...

The Daughters of Tslophachad - Motivated By The Land, Not The Money