Shlach 5720 Class One (Page 162-3).Camp is Yeshiva in camouflage. Brachos.Graduates from Boston Achei Temimim. Shlach 5720 Class Two (Page 163-4).חמרא אפילו בתקופת תמוז קרירא לי’ה the lessom that to some things (Gashmiyus) we must be “cold”.The idea of Tzitzis and Yirah. Sivan 5720 Class Three (Page 165).Graduating girls, going to camp and being counselors,…

The entire Parsha has the theme of Shlichus. This means you represent Hashem with free will- choosing to represent Him. But you must represent Him loyally. An overview of the entire Parsha.

This is a great class from the archive. The class was originally given as the introduction to a sicha on the story of the meraglim (reference coming). However, the class is self-contained and can be enjoyed on its own. Rabbi Paltiel begins with a concise summary of the events from just prior to the Exodus…

Moshe’s prayer involves “Praising Hashem” to “Raise Him” to a level from which He can forgive us. What does all this mean?

Class One. The process of bringing heaven down to earth involves three steps: 1) setting up the possibility (inheritance, Bracha), 2) actually doing it (toiling in Torah, doing Mitzvos), 3) the reward (gift beyond our possibility, the reward of the Mitzvah is the connection itself). When Moshe sets up the work and when Yehoshua sets…

A Ma’amar about Challah and an analysis of the Possuk Vayikra 15, 19-20). Lechem from heaven and from earth. Three stages: 1) Birur from the top down, 2) from the Bottom up, 3) Elevated into Atzilus again and this explains (the Pesukim of) Challah.

כי תבואו אל ארץ מושבותיכם ה’תשל”ט The Midrash says that this Parsha (of נסכים) was Hashem giving Moshe the instruction and Torah with which to console the Yidden after the מרגלים fiasco. Its consolation has to do with the fact that it is the Torah of Ratzoi and Shov, or Korbanos along with Minchah and…

This מאמר explains the idea of רצוא ושוב as it relates to קרבנות (only) once Yidden go into and settle ארץ ישראל. קרבנות are רצוא and מנחה ונסכים are שוב. In עבודת האדם they are both in Davening: קריאת שמע וכו’ ואח”כ שמונה עשרה, are רצוא ושוב. In life they are: 1) Being in Shul…

Moshe’s spies were his choice, Yehoshua’s was a divine mandate, Why? Yehoshua’s spies concerned themselves with the practical level of Judaism which is everyone’s and a divine commandment, while Moshe’s were concerned with something above the practical and that is not for every body.

The נסכים (libations) would not begin until the Yidden went into Eretz Yisroel, a full forty years after the קרבנות started in the משכן. This מאמר explores why, using קריאת שמע and תפילין as the illustration. In the מדבר they had only מצוות of רצוא and not שוב therefore they had no נסכים which represents…