October 14, 2026 | 3 Cheshvan, 5787 | Torah Portion: Noach, Torah Reading Info | Haftorah: Haftorah Info
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This Week: Noach
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The Sign of the Olive
For forty days and forty nights, the Great Flood seethed over the surface of the earth, sweeping it clean of the corruption that had polluted ...read more
Haftorah Commentary Parshas Noach
Yeshaya 54:1–55:5
Affluence in Our Times
Hashem blessed our generation with unprecedented affluence. Why do we, the lowliest of all ...read more
What a Deal!
This week we read the parsha of Noach. A mere ten generations after creation, the world had reached a state of depravity that necessitated its ...read more
People In Stone Houses Shouldn’t Cast Bricks
"...'Come, let us make bricks and burn them in fire.' And the brick served them as stone, and the lime served them as mortar." (11:3)
The ...read more
Property Upgrades
In this week’s parsha, Hashem destroyed most of the people on Earth because they had become evil. The pasuk states וַתִּמָּלֵא הָאָרֶץ חָמָס , ...read more
Ark D’triumph
You gotta believe. Day in, day out for 120 years, Noah built an ark. Naysayers and scoffers chided him, mocked him, and continued on their path ...read more
In A Manner of Speaking
THE ENTIRE EARTH spoke one language and had uniform words. Who doesn’t take speech for granted, except for the person who can’t use it? It is ...read more
Waiting for Rain
Rabbi Yaakov Galinsky zt"l adds explanatory notes to the verse:
“No shrub of the field was yet on the earth, and no herb of the field had yet ...read more
This is the Goal of the Lesson
BREISHIS - In the beginning… HASHEM created the heavens and the earth. (Breishis 1:1)
The Torah is not only a teaching book that is teaching ...read more
How Do We Know?
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Volume 41, No. 1
29 Tishrei 5787
October 10, 2026
Sponsored by the Parness family in memory of Anna Parness a”h
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Buying Software & Reminding Biller
QUESTION 22: HONESTY WHILE BUYING SOFTWARE ON WEB
A software company has a web site where one can buy their software. One button says 'click ...read more
For The Sake Of Peace III
Yosef's brothers began to realize [the implications] of their father's death. "What if Yosef is still holding a grudge against us?" they said. ...read more
Not To Be
Almost all of the morning blessings are in the positive, except for three: "who did not create me as a member the other nations of the world" ...read more
The Story of Chana: Prayer with a Purpose
Chana's is the story of one woman's prayer. That a woman should be recognized as a role model for prayer is interesting given that, in terms of ...read more
Chillul Hashem and Red Light on a Deserted Street
QUESTION 20: HOW DOES ONE FACTOR IN THE POSSIBILITY OF CHILLUL HASHEM (PROFANING HASHEM'S NAME) WHEN THERE IS A SITUATION WHERE ONE SHOULD BE ...read more
For the Sake of Peace II
God said to Avraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Can I indeed have a child when I am so old?'" (Bereshith 18:13)
As pointed out in the ...read more
It’s Good To Be a Jew
A number of years ago a non-Jew came to Yerushalayim having come to the conclusion, following a long spiritual search, that he wanted to ...read more
In the Presence of the Divine: Modalities of Jewish Prayer
In the "Shema", a prayer repeated twice a day, the Torah tells us to serve G-d "with all your heart "(Deuterotomy 6:5). This phrase is the ...read more
For the Sake of Peace
God said to Avraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, 'Can I indeed have a child when I am so old?'" (Bereshith 18:13)
In fact these were not ...read more
The Eternal Jewish Bride: A Survey of Jewish Marriage Customs
Edited by Elizabeth Fried
In Hebrew, the word for man - "ish" - and the word for woman - "isha" - are each written with three letters. Two of ...read more
