Q: If a person has two subjects in Torah that he can learn, one he enjoys and one he doesn’t, which one should he study?
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Rabbi Wolhendler is a fellow at Machon L'Hora'ah Tiferes L'Moshe in Boro Park. He is also the Director of TorasAvigdor.org and an Associate Editor for the Kol Avigdor Shas Project. As a close talmid of Rav Yitzchok Zalmen Gips Shlita, he has edited several of his seforim.
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#371 A Happy World
A Happy World Transcribed from Tape #371
Parshas Re’eh – The Purpose of Food
פרשת ראה EAT AND REJOICE! In Parshas Re’eh Hashem commands the Am Yisroel to bring korbanos to the Beis Hamikdash: ואכלתם שם לפני ה’ אלקיכם ושמחתם בכל משלח ידכם, ”You shall eat there before Hashem your G-d and you shall rejoice” (12:6-7). To eat and rejoice! Although this may imply singing and even dancing, yet…
Parshas Eikev -Becoming a Man of Prayer
פרשת עקב MOSHE RABEINU DAVENS UP A STORM In this week’s parsha, Moshe Rabeinu describes how he prayed to Hashem on behalf of Aharon his brother after the cheit ha’eigel: ואתפלל גם בעד אהרן בעת ההיא – And I prayed for Aharon at that time” (Eikev 9:20). And a few pesukim later we find the…
Parshas Va’eschanan -Thinking His Thoughts
פרשת ואתחנן THE GREATEST DAY IN HISTORY Among all of the great miracles during our forty year sojourn in the Wilderness, the day of the giving of the Torah towers above all. The exhilarating experience of hearing the Voice of Hashem speaking to us, and experiencing an Awareness of Him is something that has…
Parshas Devarim – Learning to Love
פרשת דברים EISAV IS OUR BROTHER, FOREVER At the end of the forty years in the midbar, when the Am Yisroel was passing near Edom, the land of the Bnei Eisav, Hakodosh Boruch Hu spoke to Moshe Rabeinu: אתם עוברים בגבול אחיכם בני עשיו – “You are now approaching the border of your brothers, the…
Parshas Mattos Massai – The End of the Evildoers
פרשת מטות-מסעי THE REVENGE OF MOSHE RABEINU In this week’s parsha Hakodosh Boruch informs Moshe Rabeinu of his impending death: וידבר השם אל משה לאמר… תאסף אל עמיך – “And Hashem spoke to Moshe saying…You will be gathered into your people” (Mattos 31:3). The successful life of Moshe is now drawing to a close…