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Category: All Torah Teachings

  • The Citron the spiritual meaning of the Etrog

      Rabbi Moshe Goldsmith on Succoth

  • Succot holiday learning how to bind the four species

      Rabbi Moshe Goldsmith on the four species

  • Vezot HaBracha – This is the blessing – 2010

    Vezot HaBracha – This is the blessing 2010 September 22, 2010  Leah Goldsmith This is the last parsha of the Torah. It is also the last day of Moshe Rabbeinu’s life. He stands on Har Nevo and Hashem shows him the panorama of the Land of Israel according to the root essence of each tribe…

  • Rosh Hashana – The Time of Your Life – 2010

    Rosh Hashana – The Time of Your Life September 8, 2010 If Pesach’s design is to set one’s house in order and remember leaving Egypt, the ten Days of Repentance beginning with Rosh Hashana and culminating on Yom Kippur have us cleaning slates too while we leave the past. It’s a time for making a…

  • Parshat Matot – Masey – 2010

    Parshat Matot – Masey July 8, 2010  Leah Goldsmith “And the Lord spoke to Moshe saying: Command the Children of Israel and say to them, when you come into the Land of Kenaan, this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance with its borders”. Parshat Masey begins with the motion of…

  • Parshat Chukat-Torah thoughts on current events – 2010

    Parshat Chukat-Torah thoughts on current events June 18, 2010  Leah Goldsmith The world revolves on an even axis of mercy and judgment. These are the two legs that support the world. When someone has reached the level of feeling G-d, he can easily see these attributes and know how Hashem is relating to him, either…

  • Parshat Shlach – 2010

    Parshat Shlach June 6, 2010 For those of you who wish to hear mussar- read my old torahs from 2009, 2008. One very outstanding feature I noticed, going back to New York for visits through the years has been that slowly, slowly Jews have found a way to be “frum” from A-Z and also live…

  • Parshat Beha’alotcha – 2010

    Parshat Beha’alotcha May 29 2010  Leah Goldsmith G-d created a world whose inner essence is holiness. But in order to have access to it, one must first be able to discern and recognize it within Mother Nature – vis-א-vis G-d, the tzaddikim, and the land of Israel. What you see is not always what you…

  • Parshat BaMidbar – 2010

    Parshat BaMidbar May 16 2010 Leah Goldsmith The essence of Am Yisrael is one. The individual soul of each person is combined with all the souls into one soul bound under the heavenly Shechina. Is there a place this can be done? Am Yisrael emerged as a single nation from Egypt into the Sea of…

  • Parshat Emor – 2010

    Parshat Emor April 29 2010  Leah Goldsmith When someone gets an idea in an instant flash, with the twinkle of an eye he envisions how it will look in its completed form. When the knowledge of the idea is applied and finally implemented you have the finished product – the brainchild of that idea. Knowledge…