Appreciating Company A speaker of lashon hara who contracted tzaraas was quarantined outside the camp (13:46). They needed to go into complete isolation for up to two weeks ..
Written by Daniel Shasha

We have been handpicked by Hashem to serve as His emissaries in this world. With such a tremendous privilege comes enormous responsibility. We are not meant to live ..
Written by Daniel Shasha
Shemini (Lev. 9:1-11:47) – Chazzer Parashat Shemini outlines kashrut laws and uses the pig as an example of an animal that displays cloven hooves – a kosher ..
Written by Avraham Roos
The Leil HaSeder is a night like no other. A night so fundamental in our history that Hashem anticipated it many years before Yetzias Mitzrayim. The Torah refers ..
Written by Daniel Shasha
Stepping Stones to Greatness The entire world heard about the spectacular miracles of Yetziat Mitzrayim. As the verse says, “The nations heard and trembled” ..
Written by Daniel Shasha
Krias Yam Suf was a wonder beyond imagination. Klal Yisrael were so moved by their experience that they erupted into a heartfelt song of gratitude to Hashem, Az Yashir. ..
Written by Daniel Shasha
Can we imagine awakening one morning to find our sustenance waiting for us—not in the kitchen, not in the fields, but descending gently from Shamayim itself? Food ..
Written by Daniel Shasha
A fascinating teaching of Chazal states: “Anyone who recites Kiddush Levanah is as if they greeted the Shechinah” (Sanhedrin 42a – כל המברך על הלבנה ..
Written by Daniel Shasha
Among the thousands of species of animals on the planet, the donkey stands apart. This animal isn’t even Kosher yet is granted a mitzvah unlike any other: pidyon ..
Written by Daniel Shasha
Why is it that sometimes Moshe’s name appears before Aharon, and sometimes the opposite? Rashi (6:26) makes an intriguing comment: this variation is meant to teach ..
Written by Daniel Shasha