I am making mistakes as fast as I can by Rabbi Mordechai Rhine The Parsha of Bichukosai is one of the places that the Torah declares that there is reward for good deeds and punishment for wrongdoing. The Parsha begins, “If you go in My laws, and observe My commandments.”  The commentaries wonder that the more »

Choose Your Blessings by Rabbi Mordechai Rhine The rebuke, found in this week’s Parsha and also in the book of Devorim, is associated as well with blessing. In conjunction with the statements of what bad will befall the Jewish people if they do not treasure their relationship with Hashem and His mitzvos, the Torah also more »

Wanted: Dead & Alive by Rabbi Mordechai Rhine “If you will go in My laws, and observe My commandments…” So begins the description of Hashem’s blessings if we will conduct ourselves in the ways of Torah. But the statement seems redundant. What does it mean to “go” in the laws, that would not have been more »