Download as Word Today Erev Shabbos is the tenth of Av, and till Chatzos the fire of the Bais HaMikdosh is still burning. Most of the Halachos of the 9 Days are still relevant. Therefore, I would like to discuss something from the Parsha and the Kinos of Tisha B”Av. Of the Asarah Haruegi Malchus,…

Download as Word At the center of the Bais HaMikdosh is the Even Shesiyah. That is the foundational stone of the world. In the time of the first Bais HaMikdosh the Aron sat upon it. In the second Bais HaMikdosh when there was no Aron, it was the center of the Kodesh HaKodashim. But its…

Download as Word The beginning of Parshas Devarim is a rebuke for the various sins and rebellions of Klal Yisrael in the desert. From the twentieth Pasuk on is a review of the sin of the Meraglim. This continues for over another twenty Pesukim till the end of the Perek. At the end the punishment…

Download as Word Sefer Bamidbar ends with the final preparations to enter Eretz Yisrael. One of the most important Halachos that is discussed is the Halachic boundary of Eretz Yisrael. This obviously is of tremendous significance in many ways. The most obvious example is to know where the Halachos of Trumah and Maaser are applicable.…

Download as Word In Parshas Pinchas, after executing Zimri and Kozbi for the Aveira they did, Pinchas receives a ‘Bris of Shalom, and a Bris of eternal Cehuna.’[1] What are these two Bris’s? Rashi explains the Pshat[2]. Till now Pinchas was not a Cohen, and now he receives the mantle of Cehuna. But that is…

Download as Word The Gemarra in Taanis says[1] that five tragedies befell Klal Yisrael on the 17th of Tamuz and five more on Tisha BAv. One of the calamities of the 17th of Tamuz was that the walls of the city were breached. This date is problematic since the Pasuk in Yirmiyah says[2] that the…