Parshat Masei 5779: How Much Do You Love, Cleave to and Possess Eretz Yisrael?
Shalom Friends; Our Parshat HaShevua, Masei is being sponsored by Yosef Moshe and Chana Rosenberg of Ramat Beit Shemesh dedicated in honor of Yosef Moshe’s Bar Mitzvah Parshiyot Matot/Masei and for the...
View ArticleParshat Devarim 5779: Historical Variations Regarding the Sin of the Spies?
Shalom Friends; This week, our Parshat HaShevua, Parshat Devarim is being sponsored by Ari and Rifka Stern of Ramat Beit Shemesh dedicated in honor of ???? their children, their new grandson and their...
View ArticleParshat Va’etchanan 5779: Moshe as a Paradigm of the Power of Prayer
Shalom Friends; This week, our Parshat HaShevua Va’etchanan is sponsored by Dov and Bracha Moses of Ramat Beit Shemesh and dedicated for a refuah shlaima for Rachel bat Chaya Perel and Shmuel ben Rivka...
View ArticleParshat Eikev 5779: Preventing Righteousness from Causing Conceit and...
Shalom Friends; This week, our Parshat HaShevua Eikev is sponsored by Dov and Lauren Greenberg of Ramat Beit Shemesh and dedicated in honor of their son Moshe Yitzchak’s birthday and Elisha’s...
View ArticleParshat Re’eh 5779: The Detrimental Effects of Factions and Factionalization
Shalom Friends; This week, our Parshat HaShevua Re’eh is sponsored by Matis and Marla Sklar of Ramat Beit Shemesh and dedicated for Refuah Shleima for Matis’ parents, Shmuel Chaim ben Sheina and...
View ArticleParshat Shoftim 5779: The Role of Kingship in a Torah Halachic State
Shalom Friends; This week, our Parshat HaShevua, Parshat Shoftim is being co-sponsored anonymously dedicated lilui nismas for Devorah bat Yechiel Michel Of Blessed Memory and by Mordechai and Gila...
View ArticleParshat Ki Teitsei 5779: Expressing Unity, and Taking Collective...
Shalom Friends; This week, our Parshat HaShevua Ki Tzeitzei is sponsored by Drs. David and Malka Blass of Ramat Beit Shemesh and dedicated for a Refuah Shleima for the Cholim of the community. To the...
View ArticleParshat Ki Tavo 5779: Vidui Bikkurim — Paradigm for Expressing Appreciation...
Shalom Friends; This week, our Parshat HaShevua Ki Tavo is co-sponsored by Shlomo and Shoshana Weis of Ramat Beit Shemesh and dedicated for hotslocha to entire Weis family and for a refuah shleima for...
View ArticleDebunked: Fake News Report of Alleged Israel “Spy Devices Near White House”
On Thursday, 12 September, 2019, the site Politico posted a piece alleging that Israel has planted “mysterious spy devices near the White House.” This accusation was quickly denied by Israel via an...
View ArticleParshat Nitzavim 5779: The Eternality of the Nitzavim Covenant
Shalom Friends; This week, our Parshat HaShevua for Nitzavim is sponsored by Sender and Shoshana Schwartz and family (nowmypcworks@gmail.com) of Ramat Beit Shemesh who wish all of Ramat Bet Shemesh a...
View ArticleRosh Hashanah 5780: Why Do We Leyn the Portion on the Birth of Yitzchak on...
Shalom Friends; Our Rosh Hashana 5780 Vort is being sponsored by Avraham and Miriam Deutsch of Efrat wth Special ’Shana Tova wishes for our brethren, the former residents of Gush Katif, as well as...
View ArticleParshat Vayeilech 5780: Vayeilech and Asseret Y’mei Teshuvah
Shalom Friends; This week, our Parshat HaShevua Vayeilech is sponsored by Dr. Edo and Atara Lavi of Ramat Beit Shemesh and dedicated in honor of their son Yerachmiel Me’ir’s engagement to Chana Richter...
View ArticleYom Kippur 5780: The Deaths of Nadav and Avihu and the Yom Kippur Leyning
Shalom Friends; Our Yom Kippur vort is being sponsored by Yossie and Elisheva Schulman of Ramat Beit Shemesh dedicated l’zecher nishmas Elisheva’s Grandmother Zemira bas Nechama. To Yossie, Elisheva...
View ArticleParshat Ha’azinu 5780: The Relevance of the Past to the Present — In Our Time
Shalom Friends; This week, our Parshat HaShevua Ha’azinu is being sponsored by Dr. Eliyahu and Shuli Gherman of Ramat Beit Shemesh to commemorate Eliyahu’s Bar Mitzvah parsha — Ha’azinu, and dedicated...
View ArticleSuccot 5780: The Essence of Succot
Shalom Friends; Our Succot vort is being sponsored by Haim and Danit Kalb and family of Ramat Beit Shemesh Lilui Nishmas for Haim’s Dad, Mordechai Yosef ben R’ Efraim and for the Yahrtzeit of Haim’s...
View ArticleSimchat Torah 5780: Continuing Ramifications for Shevet Reuven Resulting from...
Shalom Friends; Our Simchat Torah vort is being sponsored by Simon and Aliza Baum and family of Ramat Beit Shemesh who dedicate this vort Lilui Nishmas in honor of Simon’s Mother: Chaya Miriam Bas...
View ArticleParshat Breish’t 5780: The Eitz Hadas, Good and Evil and Society’s...
Shalom Friends; This week, our Parshat HaShevua Breish’t is being sponsored by Benyamin and Barbara Lemkin of Ramat Beit Shemesh dedicated for Jonathan Pollard coming home to Eretz Yisrael, a complete...
View ArticleParshat No’ach 5780: Updated Comparisons and Contrasts Between No’ach and...
Shalom Friends; Our Parshat HaShevua, Noach is sponsored by Jack and Chana Kaminker and family of Ramat Beit Shemesh who dedicate this vort Lilui Nishmas Jack’s Father Aryeh Shlomo Leib ben Elyaqum. To...
View ArticleParshat Lech Lecha 5780: Avraham and the Covenant Between the Pieces
Shalom Friends; This week, our Parshat HaShevua Lech Lecha is being sponsored by Zev and Sarit Schonberg and family of Ramat Beit Shemesh dedicated as a Zechus for the success of their children, Aryeh,...
View ArticleParshat Vayeira 5780: Contrasting Avraham’s Struggle with Hashem Re: Sodom...
Shalom Friends; This week, our Parshat HaShevua Vayeira is being sponsored by Dr. David and Tamar Kallus and family of Ramat Beit Shemesh dedicated for a total, complete refuah shleima for Rav Chaim...
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