http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/ An online forum for sharing thoughts and ideas relating to the Parshas HaShavua en-us WeeklyShtikle@verizon.net 2006-04-11T10:42:50-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/archives/008467.html Unlike the other four special shabbosos leading up to Pesach, Shabbos HaGadol has no special maftir reading. Rather, there is only a special haftarah. The haftarah comes from the very end of Trei Asar, essentially the very end of... 8467@http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/ Shtikle 2006-04-11T10:42:50-05:00 http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/archives/008466.html In this week's parsha, a number of the different types of sacrifices are discussed. With regard to the chatas offering, it is written (6:18) "In the place where the olah is slaughtered, the chatas shall be slaughtered in front... 8466@http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/ Shtikle 2006-04-07T10:36:56-05:00 http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/archives/008353.html In the beginning of parshas Vayakheil Moshe begins to instruct the nation on how they are to proceed with the building of the Mishkan. At the conclusion of Moshe's assembly, the pasuk (ל"ה:כ) recounts וַיֵּצְאוּ כָּל-עֲדַת בְּנֵי-יִשְׂרָאֵל, מִלִּפְנֵי משֶׁה ת... 8353@http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/ Shtikle 2006-03-24T02:42:19-05:00 http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/archives/008303.html When Moshe returns to HaShem to begin his defence of B'nei Yisroel, he opens by stating (32:31) "The nation has sinned a great sin; they have made for themselves a god of gold." Rashi, quoting the gemara (Berachos 32a, Yoma... 8303@http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/ Shtikle 2006-03-17T16:10:04-05:00 http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/archives/008273.html Click here for more on פורים from previous years.... 8273@http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/ Miscellaneous 2006-03-13T17:03:20-05:00 http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/archives/008272.html In general, the מצוות that accompany other festivals bear a logical connection to the festival itself. It is not difficult to understand why we light candles on חנוכה, why we eat matzah on פסח or cheesecake on שבועות. However, משלוח... 8272@http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/ Shtikle 2006-03-13T16:59:18-05:00 http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/archives/008250.html Got Purim Torah? Please submit as a comment. Thanks. פורים שמח... 8250@http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/ Miscellaneous 2006-03-10T14:06:34-05:00 http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/archives/008249.html In the portion read for פרשת זכור we find the commandment "תִּמְחֶה אֶת-זֶכֶר עֲמָלֵק", wipe out the remembrance of עמלק. The גמרא בבא בתרא כ"א relates a rather bizarre incident where Yoav, David HaMelech's general was sent to destroy Amaleik.... 8249@http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/ Shtikle 2006-03-10T14:05:56-05:00 http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/archives/008209.html Last year, I posed the following question and received back a number of suggestions which I would like to share. Additionally, if anyone has any new suggestions, please send them or, even better, post them on the blog: At the... 8209@http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/ Shtikle 2006-03-03T14:33:34-05:00 http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/archives/008208.html Don't forget to check out my essay on the configuration of the עמודי החצר here.... 8208@http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/ Miscellaneous 2006-03-03T14:32:13-05:00 http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/archives/008189.html אמר רב יהודה בריה דרב שמואל בר שילת משמיה דרב כשם שמשנכנס אב ממעטין בשמחה כך משנכנס אדר מרבין בשמחה (:תענית כ"ט)A couple of notes concerning this gemara with which we are all familiar:A reader once pointed out there is... 8189@http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/ Miscellaneous 2006-03-01T14:31:51-05:00 http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/archives/008158.html A great trivia question for this week's parsha and anybody learning Makkos, courtesy of HaRav Yaakov Moshe Kulefsky, zt"l: The law of עדים זוממים states that a witness who attempted to make his friend pay a certain amount of money... 8158@http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/ Miscellaneous 2006-02-24T14:25:57-05:00 http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/archives/008157.html In this week's parsha, we are commanded to come to the aid of our fellow Jew whose donkey is crouching under his burden and needs help to load it on. The Torah chooses a rather interesting way of delivering this... 8157@http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/ Shtikle 2006-02-24T14:17:57-05:00 http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/archives/008120.html At the beginning of this week's parsha we are once again given the reason behind the naming of Gershom : "Ki ger hayisi b'eretz nochria", because I was a stranger in a strange land. Here the explanation of Eliezer's... 8120@http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/ Shtikle 2006-02-17T11:57:47-05:00 http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/archives/008066.html The second to last of the many episodes that make up this week's parsha is the confrontation at מסה ומריבה. B'nei Yisroel quarrelled with Moshe saying, "Give us water so that we may drink!" Moshe counters "Why do you... 8066@http://weeklyshtikle.baltiblogs.com/ Shtikle 2006-02-10T12:25:40-05:00