The pasuk says in this week’s parasha, B’ha’alotecha, אשר הראה ה' את משה כן עשה את המנורה, and the Midrash with the mefarshim explain, Moshe couldn’t figure out how to make the Menorah from one solid piece of gold until Hashem showed him exactly how to do it. However, Moshe kept forgetting, until Hashem himself made it for him. The sefer Imreh Yitz…

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The good deeds we do for people eases their minds and helps them continue on with their lives happily. The Gemara in Baba Batra says, whoever is constantly doing acts of tzedaka will merit to have children who are wise in Torah and financially secure. When a person is asked to help others, there's a natural yetzer hara that tries to dissuade him by…

At the end of this week's parasha Naso , the Torah goes into great detail regarding the donations that the Nasi'im brought to inaugurate the Mishkan . And as we know, each Nasi brought the exact same donation and the Torah repeated each one of them, twelve times, one for each Nasi . Many mefarshim offer explanations as to why the Torah has all this…

When it comes to our physical needs, we are encouraged to make a basic effort and then rely on Hashem for the results. We know we'll never lose out by making the hishtadlut that Hashem wants us to make. In the business world, many people might say if you don't cut corners and bend some rules you won't be able to make money. We say, we don't need to…

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For a 20% discount on Rabbi Ashear's new book on Parnassah click the link below and enter Promo Code - Emunah20 https://www.artscroll.com/ Books/9781422640708.html The Gemara says in Masechet Yoma , daf 38, that a person cannot touch what is meant for someone else. Whatever Hashem decrees a person should get, he will get. If we take this Gemara to …

For a 20% discount on Rabbi Ashear's new book on Parnassah click the link below and enter Promo Code - Emunah20 https://www.artscroll.com/ Books/9781422640708.html Some people say they can't pick up a siddur to pray with. They feel betrayed. They had invested hundreds of tefillot, day and night, crying out to Hashem for help, but never got what the…

For a 20% discount on Rabbi Ashear's new book on parnassah click the link below https://www.artscroll.com/ Books/9781422640708.html The pasuk says in this week's parashah Bechukotai that if the Jewish people are following the mitzvot properly, then when they go to war, five of us will pursue a hundred of our enemies and a hundred of us will pursue …

Very often we see clearly how Hashem gives people the chizuk they need to overcome the test that He gives them. A woman told me that someone asked her to borrow a few hundred dollars. Her first reaction was to say no, because this woman did something to her in the past that ruined their relationship. She had been trying to forgive her, but it was v…

One of the great ploys of the evil inclination is to get a person to believe that Hashem is not interested in his service, especially when things aren't going the way the person wants, and he tries harder to do more mitzvot, but things still don’t improve. Then the evil inclination tells him, why bother? Hashem is not accepting what you're doing an…

As we conclude the mourning period for the 24,000 students of Rabbi Akiva, it behooves us to learn one of the lessons that Chazal told us we are supposed to take from their deaths. The Gemara says they died because they did not give each other the proper kavod . They were great Torah scholars and most certainly did not belittle each other. But they…

The best investment a person can possibly make in this world is in Torah and mitzvot. Those are the only things that are eternal. Those are the only things he can take with him when he leaves this world. Now it may not appear that mitzvot are valuable, but in the future, it's going to be revealed. The Shulchan HaTahor writes that in the future, all…

In this week's parasha, Behar, the Torah tells us, if the landowner recognizes that his land belongs to Hashem and he leaves his land fallow for the entire year of Shemitah, then Hashem will bless him with so much extra bounty. By not working the land, it would seem as though the farmer was going to lose, but when it comes to Hashem, it doesn't go …

The Malbim, in Yechezkel perek 38 writes, one of the purposes of the final war called Gog u’Magog is for Hashem to take vengeance against all our enemies who have harmed us throughout the generations. Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai writes, in the Zohar HaKadosh, parashat Bereshit , that in the future Hashem will bring back to life all of the wicked kings …

The mishna in Pirkeh Avot says, in the name of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, that if three people sit down and eat at a table and nobody says a word of Torah, it's considered as if they ate from food that was used in the service of an idol. This is an astonishing statement. This means even if the people ate without speaking one word of lashon hara and n…

There are times when a person wants something very much. He prays all the time for Hashem to help him and he makes the necessary hishtadlut to get it done. Yet, day after day goes by with no sight of salvation ahead. The person wonders why he's not being answered. He's willing to do anything to get what he wants, but he doesn't know what else he co…

A woman told me that a couple of weeks ago, her child turned on the shower and a few minutes later, water was pouring through the ceiling of their basement. They called the plumber the next day, but he couldn't figure out where the leak was coming from. They called a second plumber, who opened up some walls, and even with that, was not able to find…

In the beginning of this week's Parasha, Emor, the Torah speaks about some of the laws that have to do with mourning the loss of a relative. It says, " לא יקרחו קרחה בראשם... ובבשרם לא ישרטו שרטת – The mourner should not make a bald spot on his head or cut into his flesh." These were practices that people who were in extreme anguish would do and Ha…

Overcoming very difficult tests are great ways of accessing extra beracha . When our natural inclinations are pushing us very hard to react in an animalistic way, we must pause for a moment and remember, it's Hashem testing us with a big test because He wants to bless us. The tests are hard, but that just makes the rewards even greater. The sefer O…