7×2 thoughts 14 vorts Rav Moshe explains that בנ״י acted with זריזות by donating to the משכן right after משה told them about it, even though they had time. The חפץ חיים explains that if you have a true desire to do a מצוה then ה׳ will help you fulfill it, which we see from… Read more

Rav Abba Bronspiegel explains that כי תשא is a command to every Jew to lift up their head because they are a Jew.  The אבני אזל asks why is the לשון of תשא which means lift up used for counting? He explains because when a Jew is counted alone there is no חשיבות, only when… Read more

Rav Moshe explains that the oil for the מנורה needed to be pure teaching us that people who are role models and teachers of תורה need to act in a completely pure way.  Rav Eliezer Ginsburg explains that אתה תצוה…שמן זית זך teaches us that each and every Jew needs to try and make themselves… Read more

The רל״ג explains that ויקחו לי means that the best way to give something to ה׳ is to take away the “I” from yourself.   The חתם סופר explains that ידבנו לבו means that while it is not up to each person whether they are מחויב to give צדקה because that depends on how much money… Read more

Rashi explains that ואלה המשפטים אשר תשים לפניהם is teaching that we shouldn’t go to non Jewish courts. The Lubavitcher Rebbe explains that even if the judgement will be the same as in a Jewish court it is still not allowed because then you will think that the money you get from court is not… Read more

Essence of Yitro:  First, the gematria קטן of יתרו is 13, so he became a גר  because he heard of the יג מידות הרחמים that כלל ישראל has.  Second, Rav Moshe Tuvia Leif explains that יתרו first of heard of קריעת ים סוף and then how even with that עמלק still attacked the Jews, so… Read more

Why did Hashem lead Am Yisrael through the longer route?  First, the חפץ חיים says that from the fact that we went the longer route shows that sometimes the shorter route can hurt your ruchniyus. Second, the    דעת זקנים  explains that כי קרוב הוא is saying that ה׳ is close to us and Rav Moshe… Read more

Rav Menachem Pfeiffer and Rav Mendel Blachman explain that the תורה says ״בא״ and not ״לך״ because ה׳ was telling משה to come with Him to פרעה, not that he was just going to go alone.  Rav Dovid Miller said a different פשט. He explained that ה׳ was saying that even when you go to… Read more

Several thoughts regarding Pharoah:  First, Rav Shternbach says that פרעה went to bathroom in the Nile. There had to be sometimes that he had to hold it in, which is painful and not healthy. We see how far people are willing to go for honor.   Second, the ספורנו explains that the reason ה׳ hardened פרעה’s… Read more

We learn a lot from the character of Moshe.  For example, Rav Yaakov Weinberg says that the reason משה was chosen to be leader was because he took his sheep every day, day in and day out, to the desert to make sure they didn’t eat other people’s things, even though when you do something… Read more