Divrei Torah

Exactly Where You Are
Exactly Where You Are
Why Avraham Avinu was told to leave everything at seventy-five — and why the conditions a person finds himself in are the very place he was sent to grow Read more...
Noach Found Chen
Noach Found Chen
In a world Hashem was ready to wipe away, one man found favor in His eyes — and it began with the small things Read more...
Why We Begin From Scratch
Why We Begin From Scratch
Before the Torah gives us a single mitzvah, it teaches us middos — and why a Yid cannot say "this is just who I am" Read more...
Be a Fire on Simchas Torah
Be a Fire on Simchas Torah
Where the excitement in learning actually comes from, why Chazal tell us to pick a fight we cannot win on our own — and why the fire has to come... Read more...
We Know Simchah Is the Key — But How?
We Know Simchah Is the Key — But How?
Everyone knows that everything good comes from simchah; the question is what to do when the brain knows it and the heart is not pumping — and what the Saba... Read more...
The Greatness of Teshuvah
The Greatness of Teshuvah
Teshuvah is not asking mechilah — it is being made into a different person; and the hardest teshuvah is not for what we did, but for how we think Read more...
What Do We Need to Know Before Rosh Hashana?
What Do We Need to Know Before Rosh Hashana?
Three sefarim open — and which one we are written into is our own decision; what makes that decision real is desperation, and bittul Read more...
What Can We Gain From Elul?
What Can We Gain From Elul?
The fixing belongs to Elul, not to Rosh Hashana — and the rachamim we are begging Hashem to pour down on us have first to be built inside us Read more...
Choose a Real Life of Blessings
Choose a Real Life of Blessings
Elul — "choose life" is not only about choosing Torah; it is about choosing our middos, and a person can learn all day and still touch everything like a knife Read more...
Who Is Waiting for Whom?
Who Is Waiting for Whom?
Elul — we spend our lives waiting for Hashem to answer; the Mishnah says it is the other way round Read more...
Time to Correct Our Drive
Time to Correct Our Drive
Choidesh Elul — the drive is the steering wheel of a whole life, and the drive that counts most is the one we give when we feel nothing Read more...
Fire, Love, and Ready to Die for It
Fire, Love, and Ready to Die for It
As we come into Elul, the real avodah is one thing — and the Torah was never meant to be easy; the hard work itself is the closeness Read more...
If You Want to Get Anywhere in Life, the Key Is…
If You Want to Get Anywhere in Life, the Key Is…
Out of all the concepts in the Torah, there is one engine that pulls every wagon — and its name is determination Read more...
Real Love & Its Power
Real Love & Its Power
Real ahava is the trait everything stands on — how we measure ours, and how far its power can reach Read more...
How Do We Cry for the Churban?
How Do We Cry for the Churban?
Our own pain and the pain of the Churban are one — and the cry of a Yid is a cry of hope Read more...
How Do We Build the Beis HaMikdash Today?
How Do We Build the Beis HaMikdash Today?
Every Jew builds his own Mikdash — and the terumah of the heart that makes it beautiful Read more...
Strange Signs From Heaven
Strange Signs From Heaven
On reading the messages Hashem is always sending — and the dveikus that Bilaam could not curse Read more...