Jul 29, 2026
The Special Celebration of טו באב - the Fifteenth of Av, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom
The happiest days of the year, Rabban Shim'on b. Gamliel tells us, were the 15th of Av and Yom haKippurim. On these days, he reports, young women would go into the vineyards and dance and the young men would choose them as wives. The...
Jul 23, 2026
Vaetchanan | Nachamu Nachamu Ami, by Rav Eli Weber
Yeshayahu 40: 1-26
Is repentance required for redemption?
Jul 23, 2026
Devarim | "The vision of Yeshayahu son of Amotz", by Rav Eli Weber
Yeshayahu 1:1-27
Is ritualistic worship enough?
Jul 23, 2026
Matot - Masei | "For My people have committed two evils", by Rav Eli Weber
Yirmiyahu 2: 4-28, 3:4
Idolatry as Betrayal. Why couldn't even Yoshiyahu's great teshuva revolution save Yerushalayim? Yirmiyahu reveals the sin God takes personally — and the lesson for the Three Weeks.
Jul 8, 2026
Yirmiyah, the Joyous Sounds of Weddings, and the Return to the Land, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom
Why are the themes of marriage and the return to Yerushalayim intertwined in Yirmiyah's prophecies and in the Birkat Chatanim?
We are all famliar with the phrase עוד ישמע בערי יהודה...