Rav Shea Fishman zt”l
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzSome people come into your life and never really leave. They make a mark on you, influencing, inspiring and teaching. Such a person was Rav Yehoshua Zvi Fishman zt”l, who...
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By Rabbi Pinchos LipscutzAs we study Parshas Terumah, we learn of the keruvim (Shemos 25:20), images of angelic young children with cherubic faces that stood on top of the Aron in the holiest place in...
View ArticleHappy is the Jewish Way
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzPurim was approaching and the people were apprehensive. And who could blame them? It was 1941 and they were in the Warsaw Ghetto. There were few reasons to smile. Everyone...
View ArticleKeep It Going
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThis week’s parsha of Ki Sisa contains peaks of glory and splendor, depths of catastrophe, and a cataclysmic blow, followed by the greatest message of forgiveness in the...
View ArticleA Constant Battle
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzJust last week, we experienced Purim, a time of great joy and hope. This week is Parshas Hachodesh, signifying that chodesh Nissan– the month of redemption – begins next week....
View ArticleThe Door to Redemption
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzWith the arrival of the month of Nissan, yeshivosare going into bein hazemanim, girls are being let out to help their mothers prepare for Pesach, and we are furiously making...
View ArticleContinuing the Chain
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzPesach is a Yom Tov of chinuch. The Gemara derives the concept of the Seder from the posuk of “vehigadeta levincha,”which instructs us to tell our children the story of our...
View ArticleKeep That Spirit
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzWe just recently completed observing the eight-day Yom Tov of Pesach, which celebrated our freedom - geulah - from Mitzrayim. After many generations of subjugation under a...
View ArticleWhat it Means to Be Holy
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzWe live in a bizarre period in history. We see things transpiring in this country and across the world that are stranger than fiction and people are powerless to stop the...
View ArticleA Battle for the Soul
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThe news landed last week like a thud. A heavily edited, carefully scripted and produced three-minute video announced that Joe Biden was running for reelection as president of...
View ArticleA Personal Remembrance
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzRav Meir Hershkowitz was the type of talmid chochom we read about in storybooks and wonder why we never meet such a person. A talmid muvhak of Rav Aharon Kotler, he was a...
View ArticleReaching the Heavens
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzSefer Vayikra comes to an end this week as we lain the parshiyos of Behar and Bechukosai. Both open with the obligation to go to extremes in mitzvah observance. The mitzvah of...
View ArticleWho We Are
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzSince the second day of Pesach, we have been counting towards the first day of Shavuos. Each day, we have been getting increasingly prepared to be able to accept the gift of...
View ArticleGetting Back to What's Real
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzMy dear friend, Rav Lipa Yisraelson, recently published the latest volume in his Siach Ish series of seforim on Yomim Tovim. They contain halachos, hanhagos and stories from...
View ArticleOne Heart, One Destination
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzAs I write this, I am sitting on an airplane, flying to Eretz Yisroel to spend the Yom Tov of Matan Torah in Tzion: “ki mitzion teitzei Torah.” It is now 1:30 a.m. and the end...
View ArticleRemebering Rav Gershon Edelstein zt’’l
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzI can’t say that I was especially close to Rav Gershon Edelstein zt”l, but during the past several years, I would visit his home when I was in Bnei Brak. Originally, there was...
View ArticleThe Torah Revolution
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzThis week, the Torah world celebrated a historic milestone. At a time when everything that happens in our world is described with the adjective “historic,” on Sunday night we...
View ArticleUps and Downs
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzParshas Shelach opens with the tragic episode of the meraglim sent to investigate Eretz Yisroel. The mission, which was led by twelve great leaders, ended in disaster, with...
View ArticleA World of Lies
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzSummer is rapidly approaching. It is a time when people seek to tune out from the regular daily rigors of life and chill instead. This week, some people pack their belongings...
View ArticleA Blessed People. A Blessed Life.
By Rabbi Pinchos LipschutzParshas Chukas is one of the shortest sidros of the Torah, but it contains many messages for us that are especially poignant in our time. This year we have the added pleasure...
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