Vision for Greatness
Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThis week’s parsha of Beshalach is associated with the parting of the sea at Kriyas Yam Suf, where the Jewish people completed their departure from Mitzrayim. It was there that...
View ArticleRemembering My Grandfather, Rav Eliezer Levin zt”l
Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThe Imrei Emes of Ger and the Chofetz Chaim were traveling on the same train. At one of the stops, a resourceful Gerrer chossid found his way on to the train and pushed his young...
View ArticleRespect & Self- Respect
Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThis week, in Parshas Mishpotim,we see the grandeur and glory of Matan Torah from Parshas Yisrosegue into the practical details of the actual laws of the Torah. The two...
View ArticleCelebrate Together
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzRav Yaakov Edelstein, who passed away last week was a leading rov, founding talmid of Ponovezh Yeshiva, and close disciple of the Chazon Ish. When meeting him it seemed as if...
View ArticleThe Face of Purim
Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzPurim is different.When all the Yomim Tovim will cease to be celebrated and only be remembered as part of golus, Purim will live on; a day of joy in a time of ultimate...
View ArticleBridge the Divide
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzWe just completed the observance of Purim. We are still in the exalted state that defines chodesh Adar and we are confronted by the tragedy of Parshas Ki Sisa. The parsha...
View ArticleSanctify the Moment
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz The parsha this week begins with the words, “Vayakhel Moshe es kol adas bnei Yisroel.”Moshe descended the mountain the day after Yom Kippur and all of Klal Yisroel flocked to...
View ArticleBe Real!
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzIt is that time of the year again.Piles grow taller, and then decisions are made: What are we keeping and what are we tossing? What stays and what goes?Old papers and books,...
View ArticleThe Chosen
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzVehi she'omda la'avoseinu velonu.I say these words every year at the Seder, as you do, and as all those who came before us did. There are more than 3,300 years separating us...
View ArticleOur Words Define Us
Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzOn Pesach, we celebrated the birth of our nation, the moments when we stood together to become amo Yisroel, His beloved People. Since that time, we have shared a destiny, as a...
View ArticleA Holy People
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThis week, we read the parshiyos of Acharei Mos and Kedoshim. Rashi quotes the Toras Kohanim, which states that Parshas Kedoshim was delivered by Moshe Rabbeinu personally to...
View ArticleThe Royals
Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Today, it is very much in vogue to blame others for failure. Those who don’t make it blame the system, the school, the teacher, the government, the president, or some other...
View ArticleIt’s About Concentration
Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz In today’s fast-moving and changing world, attention spans are shrinking more rapidly than the polar cap under global warming. We are adopting the failures of society and...
View ArticleIt Is Who We Are and What We Are About
Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzBack when the sun first rose and creation was unsullied by man and his struggles, the world was waiting. Even after man settled in the garden, le’ovdah uleshomrah, the world was...
View ArticleInspired
Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz One year on Motzoei Shavuos, two young talmidei chachomim asked the Satmar Rov, Rav Yoel Teitelbaum, for a brocha. He blessed them that the hashpa’os of Shavuos, and...
View ArticlePraiseworthy
Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzNow is a difficult time for a people that strives to hold on to a value system and remain focused on what is real and true.Decency is under constant assault. Refinement and...
View ArticleOvercoming Human Nature
Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzIt was, in a sense, the first gathering of the Bnei Yisroel, the twelve pillars of our nation surrounding the bedside of their father. Yaakov Avinu looked at each of his sons in...
View ArticleRav Meir Zlotowitz: An Appreciation
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Often times there are certain people who come into your life seemingly by accident, and then they stay there and make a profound impact on you. Rabbi Meir Zlotowitz and I...
View ArticleWho We Are
Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThe novi Yirmiyohu mourns, “Vayeitzei mibas Tzion kol hadarah… Her adversaries have become her master, her enemies are at ease, for Hashem has aggrieved her for her...
View ArticleLet Us Make a Kiddush Hashem
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThe Sefas Emes (Pinchos 5640 & 5663) writes that the reason Klal Yisroel was counted in Parshas Pinchos is because the parsha describes the changes that took place as...
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