Tuesday, May 13th 2025   |

Commentaries

Person in the Parsha: Nitzavim-Vayelech

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

ACCEPTING THE INVEVITABLE

 

All men are mortal.

Yankel is a man.

Therefore, Yankel is mortal.

You have just read a basic lesson in logic, one that appears in almost every textbook on...

Person in the Parsha: Ki Tavo

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“Didn’t You See Them?”

It is a question that I learned never to ask. I first learned this lesson in my training as a psychotherapist, long ago. I was...

Person in the Parsha: Ki Tetzei

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

THE DUTY OF CIVILIANS IN WAR

It seems that war is one of the most common of all human activities. Study history of the human race, and you will not find many years...

Person in the Parsha: Shoftim

By RABBI TZVI HIRSH WEINREB

“TREE-LIKE” 

I love metaphors. An apt metaphor can help stimulate boundless creativity and can lead to a deeper and richer understanding of the concept being studied.

Take, for example, the metaphor of a...

Person in the Parsha: Re’eh

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

HOW AM I DOING?

 If your child, employee, or colleague asks you that question, you can be sure that he or she is sincere, wishes to learn, and will...

Person in the Parsha: Ekev

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

DISCIPLINE AND SUFFERING

 As a parent, grandparent, and psychologist, I am often considered to be something of an expert on parenting and child-rearing. In that capacity, I have frequently...

Person in the Parsha: Va’etchanan

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“Unanswered Prayers”

 It is a question with which every religious person has at one time been confronted and been confounded. Even those of us who are not theologically inclined...

Person in the Parsha: Devarim

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

A TIME AND A PLACE

“He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.” We have all heard this phrase, and many of us have used it. It...

Person in the Parsha: Matot-Masei

 By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“HONESTY AND INTEGRITY”

Every so often, I come across a sentence of another person’s writing which expresses one of my own thoughts in a language far superior...

Person in the Parsha: Pinchas

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB 

LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP

Too often, leaders cling to power. They are so intoxicated by the privileges of their position that they become blinded to their own vulnerabilities and even...