A Holy Connection
Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThe Jewish world has undergone a tremendous change since Sukkos ended last year. It was as if once the Yom Tov that celebrates Hashem’s protection of the Jewish people in the...
View ArticleA Rising Light Extinguished
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThe first parsha of the Torah, which discusses the creation of the world and its beginning years, represents potential and the future. On Shabbos Bereishis, we begin the...
View ArticleTwists, Turns, and Trust
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzLife is full of twists and turns. We think everything is set and that our lives will proceed according to one plan, and then things switch. We lose our job, the kollel is no...
View ArticleFrom Fake News to True Values
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzLast week, two events transpired that proved that much of what we have been fed by the media is not only wrong, but a lie.Donald Trump coined the term “fake news” during his...
View ArticleLessons Big & Small
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThis week we study Parshas Chayei Sarah, as we continue our trek through Sefer Bereishis, learning about our forefathers and mothers so that we can follow in their ways.While...
View ArticleLiving With Depth
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzWe live in troubled times, which is nothing new, as this has been the case for a while. What is different now is that it is often confounding to know which way to go. We see...
View ArticleYaakov’s Legacy and Our Responsibility
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzYaakov Avinu had a rough life. In last week’s parsha, we learned how he was tormented even prior to his birth, by his twin brother Eisov, who would go on to serve as a...
View ArticleThe Divine Hand
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzWe are still living in the shadow of the historic attack that occurred last year on Simchas Torah in Eretz Yisroel. Twelve hundred Jews were slaughtered, thousands were...
View ArticleFlames of Faith
Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThe posuk (Bereishis 37:1) tells us, “Vayeishev Yaakov b’eretz megurei aviv b’eretz Cana’an— Yaakov lived in the land where his father had sojourned, in the land of Cana’an.”...
View ArticleLight Up the World
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzIn the darkest days of the Holocaust, hundreds of talmidim from the Mir Yeshiva were saved through the selfless actions of Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese diplomat stationed in...
View ArticleBrothers
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThis week, in Parshas Vayigash, Yosef breaks down and ends the charade he had been maintaining with his brothers. Each time they came to Mitzrayim seeking food for their...
View ArticleBelieve in Yourself
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzWith Parshas Vayechi, the fascinating sefer of Bereishis draws to a close. Without giving any detail about anything that went on in Yaakov’s life during his seventeen years in...
View ArticleSparks Amidst the Darkness
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThis week, we begin the study of Seder Shemos, recounting the story of Yaakov’s descendants in Mitzrayim. First, we learn of their subjugation and servitude, followed by their...
View ArticleUnending Challenges, Unbending Faith
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzEretz Yisroel is a nation fraught with disagreements, tragedies, and profound challenges. Since its inception, Israel has faced large and small problems, oscillating between...
View ArticleLight Through Darkness
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThe world is moving so fast that we can barely keep track of what is going on. After experiencing four years of a weak, ineffective, and incompetent leader who caused the...
View ArticleChoose the Path of Faith
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzRecently, we’ve become all too familiar with the heartbreaking news from Eretz Yisroel: surprise attacks, bombings, hostages, deaths, and soldiers killed and suffering grave...
View ArticleThe Beauty of Shabbos
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzFinally, after generations of enslavement in Mitzrayim and a dramatic redemption, Klal Yisroel reaches the apex of creation, standing at Har Sinai and receiving the Torah from...
View ArticleFidelity to the Truth
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzWe are meant to learn lessons from current events. Today’s headlines connect to the first Rashi in this week’s parsha.A new president took office three weeks ago, promising to...
View ArticleWhat Is Happening?
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzMonsters. There is no other way to describe them. Bloodthirsty killers. How long will the world continue to play games with them, supporting them, agitating for them,...
View ArticleWe Are Here!
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzPeople wonder how we can celebrate Purim with true joy while a war is going on in Eretz Yisroel. People ask us how we can sing when Jews are being held hostage in terrible...
View ArticleThe True Reality
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzFace it. Life has its rough patches, days when nothing seems to go as planned and everything you do leaves you feeling frustrated. It’s a nice, sunny Sunday, just a few days...
View ArticleBe Smart, Be Happy
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThis year’s Purim was different from most years. We had the rare occurrence of celebrating the special day on a Friday, with the specter of Shabbos hanging over us. Everything...
View ArticleRising to Greatness
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzAs we observe the world around us and witness the depths to which many have sunk, it becomes increasingly difficult to remember that we were created to achieve great heights,...
View ArticleThe Song of Pesach
Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzI am writing this on Rosh Chodesh Nissan, grateful to have arrived at the month of geulah—both for the past and, hopefully, for the present as well.Just as the month was about to...
View ArticleThe Essence of Pesach
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThe essence of the Haggadah and Pesach is the relationship between father and son and the obligation for a father to transmit to his son the story of the geulah from...
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