Category: Oneg Shabbos

Reb Shabsi Yudelevitch זצ''ל once related how a group of tourists were walking through the neighbourhood of Meah Shearim on Tisha B’Av morning, and they wandered into a shul.

What is the reason for the juxtaposition of the parsha of nedarim, vows (Bamidbar 30: 2-17) to the parsha of the vengeance of the Bnei Yisrael against Midyan (Bamidbar 31) in the first of this week’s Sedros?

The ShailaText team deals with a vast array of halachic queries, which cover a huge range of topics. Patterns do, however, exist; and at times it gets somewhat predictable. As the week draws to a close there will invariably be a few shailas on the details of the mitzvah of Hafroshas Challah.

In this week’s parsha we see a confluence of two major themes which flow through the whole commentary of the Netziv in his Haamek Davar.

In Parshas Korach, Dasan and Aviram accuse Moshe of usurping power from within the Jewish people.

There is a rather famous expression which I would have done well to remember on a more regular basis in my formative years – “The grass is always greener on the other side”.

The sedra this week commences with a narrative detailing the lighting of the menorah which took place in the mishkan. The sedra last week closed with the description of the 12 tribes’ consecration of the mishkan – what is the connection between these two sections?