In this packed parsha class, we explored two ideas from the Mei HaShiloach; the first regarding the importance of striking a balanced approach to life including both confidence and awe and the second a brilliant explanation of “pi hachiros” and the true definition of freedom, a teaching from the Kedushas Levi regarding the elevated status our nation holds over the angels, and a lesson from the Noam Elimelech about an indicator as to the nature of one’s week.
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By Rav Y. Reuven Rubin 
I’m not a great traveler, as time goes by it gets ever  harder to schlep, especially with having to  stand in all those  queues for all sorts of reasons, some of which my mere mortal mind has  yet to fathom. (I’ve not yet heard of hijackers taking over a plane with bottles of Head and Shoulders held up high) Today I write from New York City so obviously I have traveled and although I am jet lagged, I want to share some immediate thoughts.

By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld  

By Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss

Q: 
May a yeshiva bochur listen to sports on the radio?
A:
I’ll ask you a different question: May a yeshiva bochur stand on his head? Yes, if he wants to. But he’s a meshugenah if he does it.
What is sports? It’s so silly! The Yanks and the Mets hitting the baseball. It’s so meshugah. It’s an American goyishe meshugenah velt. It’s the headlines – Yanks, Mets. It’s so silly.
What sports does is the following. The headlines show us how empty the gentile world is. And therefore, we take a lesson from that. These foolish people who can make headlines from the most silly things – we have to say, “Can they be an example for us at all?! In anything?!”

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By: Rabbi Berach Steinfeld

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