RABBI TUVIA SERBER

בס”ד By Rabbi Tuvia Serber In this week’s Torah reading we learn about the spies that were sent to the Land of Israel. They came with a report that generated a big rebellion against Moshe and God and, as a result, God decided that all people would wander in the… Read More »PARSHAT SHELACH 5785 – THE SPIES AND MYSTICISM

בס”ד Parashat Bamidbar This week’s reading is called “In the desert” and gives beginning to the fourth book of Torah, which is also called “Numbers”. In this book, God commands to count the Jewish people a number of times. What’s the meaning if this counting? Doesn’t God know the amount… Read More »PARSHAT BAMIDBAR 5785 – WHY DOES GOD COUNT PEOPLE?

בס”ד Behar 5785 One of this week’s reading is called Behar, which means “at the mountain”. The first commandment explained if that of the resting of the land in the seventh year. This Mitzvah has a lesson for each one of us. Based on Likutei Sichot vol. 1, p. 273… Read More »PARSHAT BEHAR 5785 – WHY DOES GOD COUNT PEOPLE?

בס”ד Parashat Bamidbar This week’s reading is called “In the desert” and gives beginning to the fourth book of Torah, which is also called “Numbers”. In this book, God commands to count the Jewish people a number of times. What’s the meaning if this counting? Doesn’t God know the amount… Read More »PARSHAT BAMIDBAR 5785 – WHY DOES GOD COUNT PEOPLE?

בס”ד This short class explains the meaning of the words Lag BaOmer and relates a story by Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai with an important lesson. Today is a very special day in the Jewish calendar, called Lag BaOmer. It is the 18th day of the Hebrew month of Iyar and… Read More »LAG BA’OMER – WHAT IS IT?

בס”ד Parashat Kedoshim In this week’s reading we learn about being holy. Usually this means to be separated from the world. But in this short class we learn that holiness can also mean to be within the world, in a very special way. Are you holy? This week, we read… Read More »PARSHAT KEDOSHIM – ARE YOU HOLY?

בס”ד Parashot Tazria/Metzora The main subject of these two sections is a miraculous decease called Tzraat and the way it appears and gets cured. There are many layers of meaning in the Torah and, therefore, there’s a lesson both for regular people and for very elevated people. Introduction This week’s… Read More »PARSHAT TAZRIA/METZORA – IS GOD THE MAIN THING IN YOUR LIFE?

בס”ד DON’T BE SILENT, PRAISE! Parashat Shemini This week’s Torah reading talks, among other themes, about the death of two of the sons of Aharon, Nadav and Avihu, in the middle of serving G-d. The Torah relates the attitude of Aharon and, when compared to that of King David we… Read More »PARSHAT SHEMINI – DON’T BE SILENT, PRAISE!