Our Strength. Our Goal. Our Life.
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzPeople are funny. Despite the best efforts of those who think they are in charge, time after time, the people show that they can’t always be misled, pushed around, taken...
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By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzEver since Yaakov’s showdown with Eisov, that saga has been providing Yaakov’s progeny with a prototype for dealing with an enemy in his various guises. Sometimes the enemy...
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By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThe Yom Tov of Chanukah is almost upon us; beginning this Sunday evening. A fuller understanding of the special days helps us appreciate and enjoy them better. The basic story...
View ArticleStrike a Match
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzAs the winter begins to set in, bringing with it early nights and cold weather, Chanukaharrives, warming our hearts and souls, and bringing much light to a dark world. How...
View ArticleRise Like a Lion
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThe emotional meetings between the brothers and Yosef reach a crescendo in Parshas Vayigash. The brothers came several times to Mitzrayim in search of food, each time harassed...
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By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzParshas Vayechi completes the Torah’s discussion of the founding of the world, and the first adherents of Yahadusand their families. Seder Bereishis contains many stories that...
View ArticleThe Truth
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThere are all types of people. Some see the positives in this world and others see the negatives. Taking a look at what is going on now, you can almost fall in with those who...
View ArticleLearning to Appreciate
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThe Gemara teaches that Chananyah, Mishoel and Azaryah were inspired by the frogs of Mitzrayim to give up their lives al kiddush Hashem.The Gemara in Pesochim (53b) explains...
View ArticleBnei Torah
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThis week’s parsha completes the cycle of the ten makkos that Hashem visited upon Mitzrayim. It is striking that despite all the various warnings, punishments, pleas, havoc...
View ArticleVision
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThis week’s parsha of Beshalach is associated with the splitting of the sea at Krias Yam Suf, where the Jewish people finished their exit from Mitzrayim. It was there that...
View ArticleMaking the Move
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzOne Shabbos, Rav Chaim Leib Auerbach and his young son, Shlomo Zalman, walked from the Shaarei Chesed neighborhood of Yerushalayim to Meah Shearim to participate in a Kiddush....
View ArticleA Fake World
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzEvery day, it becomes clearer to us that we live in a fake world. That doesn’t mean that we are fake, that our families and possessions are not real, and that everything that...
View ArticlePure & Holy
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzAs this week’s parsha of Terumah opens, Hashem tells Moshe to speak to the Bnei Yisroel and tell them “viyikchu li terumah,” to collect donations for the construction of the...
View ArticleA Giving People
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThe Chofetz Chaim would invest much effort into choosing the right people to raise funds for his yeshiva. He would explain that the posuk in last week’s parsha states,...
View ArticlePeace, Brother.
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzParshasKi Sisa contains apexes of glory and splendor, depths of catastrophe, and a cataclysmic blow, followed by the greatest message of forgiveness in the Torah.The tragic...
View ArticleGood Hearted
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThis week in Parshas Vayakhel, the Torah continues with the discussion of matters concerning the construction of the Mishkon. Though these topics have been discussed in the...
View ArticleIt’s Up to Us
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThose who would know say that Vladimir Putin is a changed person. Never a big tzaddik, last week he delivered an irrational and delusional speech denying that Ukraine is a...
View ArticleThe Joy of Clarity
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzPurim will live on for eternity as a day of joy and festivity. After the arrival of Moshiach, the other Yomim Tovim will no longer be celebrated, other than to be remembered...
View ArticleSee the Strength
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Most real estate solicitations begin the same way: “I found this great building/project/development. The past owner didn’t manage it properly, so I can get in at a low price...
View ArticleRav Chaim zt”l
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzOne day it was Purim, and all around the world Jews were celebrating. The next day, it was Tisha B’Av. The celebrations were forgotten. Purim was a distant memory.“Shekulah...
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