Day: May 21, 2015

Look at the Big Picture

Divrei Torah -issue of balance of piety tends to arise often with regards to the yahrtzeit(anniversary of death) of a parent, a time when a child tries to earn merit for the father or mother that passed away, but, often, in the process of seeking this merit, the child may actually do otherwise.

In one of his talks on the weekly Torah reading (Sholom Smith, A Vort from Rav Pam, pp. 169-170), R. Avraham Pam notes that in his Mesilat Yesharim, chap. 20, the preeminent Torah scholar and kabbalist R. Moshe Chaim Luzzato (1707 – 1746) points out that the last verses of the Torah portion of Bamidbar are […]