Beis Vaad L'Chachamim

 The story is well know, and I've mentioned it before, here , as I verified it with Reb Yehuda Bakst.  When Harav Bakst was a young man ...

(I don't nearly as much as Reb Chaim Brown's blog. He has, for example, forty seven divrei Torah on Parshas Toldos and twenty eight ...

Reb Moshe in the Darash derives important יסודות from the יתדות, a lesson from these alternative methods of keeping the יריעות, the fabric a...

  We brought Rashi's alternative explanations of what kept the Mishkan covers from being blown about by the wind and from sagging into t...

  What kept the roof of the Mishkan, the יריעות, from sagging in middle, or flapping in the desert wind? Fabric or leather of that great an ...

In short: The Rainbow was a sign of Rachamim despite what mankind might deserve under Middas HaDin.  In that it represents the covenant bet...

Several years ago,  I posted the following  on the word "Tamid."  That discussion actually relates very nicely to Rosh Chodesh ...

The Amudim that comprise the walls of the Heichal are referred to as Omdim- עצי שטים עמדים. The Gemara (Sukkah 45b) interprets this to be a ...

In Teruma and Tetzaveh, Rashi points out that three keilim had gold crowns: the Shulchan, the Golden Mizbei'ach, and the Aron haKodesh. ...

Parshas Teruma begins the discussion of the building of the Mishkan.  The Tanchuma says that although the construction of the Mishkan was a ...