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About the Author
Rabbi Noson Weisz
While studying at the famed yeshivas of Chaim Berlin, Lakewood and the Mir in Jerusalem, Rabbi Noson Weisz also received a degree in Microbiology from the University of Toronto, MA in Political Science at the New School for Social Research and his LLB from the University of Toronto. Rabbi Weisz is currently a senior lecturer at Yeshiva Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem.
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Chumash Themes #6: The Binding of Isaac
by Rabbi Noson WeiszA seminal event in Jewish national consciousness.
Chumash Themes #2: The Purpose of Creation
by Rabbi Noson WeiszGod created a world in need of perfecting.
The Names of God
by Rabbi Noson WeiszExploring the meaning of God's two most essentials names: An excerpt from R. Weisz's new book PrayerWorks.
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Mind Over Matter
by Rabbi Noson WeiszThe mitzvah of counting the Omer holds the key to understanding the proper balance between thoughts and feelings.
The Honor of Torah
by Rabbi Noson WeiszProfound lessons learned from Rebbe Akiva's 24,000 students.
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The Double Image
by Rabbi Noson WeiszOne would have thought that only a poor comedian desperate for a good line would attempt to establish a parallel between weddings and funerals. Yet ...
Holy of holies
by Rabbi Noson Weisz"The goat will bear upon itself all their iniquities ..." (Leviticus 16:22) One of the most perplexing topics that we encounter in the Torah ...
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Tablets for Living
by Rabbi Noson WeiszComparing the two tablets: one containing obligations toward God, the other obligations toward people.
Of Wounded Souls
by Rabbi Noson WeiszYou are children to the Lord, your God. You shall not cut yourselves and you shall not make a bald spot between your eyes for a dead person. For you ...
Torah Power
by Rabbi Noson WeiszWe always read Parshat V'etchanan on the Shabbat after the fast of the 9th of Av -- a Shabbat known as Shabbat Nachamu, the "Shabbat of ...
Israel, Where Are You?
by Rabbi Noson WeiszWe always read Parshat Devarim on the Sabbath immediately preceding the 9th of Av. This is due to a combination of two main factors: One of the ...
Mind Over Matter__
by Rabbi Noson WeiszThe mitzvah of counting the Omer holds the key to understanding the proper balance between thoughts and feelings.
Minding Your Own Business
by Rabbi Noson WeiszParshat Pinchas offers us the Torah's outlook on the problematic topic of the zealot. We all live in modern liberal democracies and one of the few ...
Of Sheep and Shepherds
by Rabbi Noson WeiszThe children of Reuben and the children of Gad had abundant livestock, very great. They saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead and behold! the ...
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We Will Do and We Will Hear
by Rabbi Noson WeiszIf the Jews gathered at Mount Sinai were eager to receive the Torah, why the need for Divine coercion?
The Looking-Glass War
by Rabbi Noson WeiszAt first glance, Parshat Balak seems difficult to relate to from the perspective of the modern person. A frightened, superstitious, primitive ...
The Tragedy of Tragedy
by Rabbi Noson WeiszParshat Chukat is full of death. First we read about the "red heifer" whose ashes are required to purify someone who comes into direct ...
Blood, Sweat and Tears
by Rabbi Noson WeiszParshat Shlach, a record of the tragic story of the spies, revolves around a concept that has no counterpart in secular culture. As the concept does ...
Let Them Eat Meat
by Rabbi Noson WeiszThe strangest conversation recorded in the Torah takes place in our Torah portion. Moses said, "Six hundred thousand foot soldiers are the ...
Sotah
by Rabbi Noson WeiszOne of the laws discussed in Parshat Naso is known as the law of the sotah, which describes how a Jewish court is meant to deal with an adulterous ...
Do I Really Need This?
by Rabbi Noson WeiszGod spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of Meeting, on the first of the second month, in the second year after their exodus from ...
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Dearly Beloved
by Rabbi Noson WeiszA person should not say to himself: "I will observe the commandments of the Torah and engage myself in acquiring its wisdom so that I shall ...
The Heart of the Matter
by Rabbi Noson WeiszYou shall count for yourselves -- from the morrow of the rest day, from the day when you bring the omer of the waving -- seven weeks, they shall be ...
The Holy Connection
by Rabbi Noson WeiszGod spoke to Moses saying: "Speak to the entire assembly of the Children of Israel and say to them: You shall be holy, for I, the Lord your ...
The Cutting Edge
by Rabbi Noson WeiszOn the eighth day you shall circumcise the foreskin. (Leviticus 12:3) Until very recently the practice of circumcision was faithfully carried out ...
Holy Physics
by Rabbi Noson WeiszThis week's Torah portion Shmini confronts us with the attribute of Divine justice in its harshest and most unforgiving aspect -- the phenomenon of ...
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The Book of Ruth: A Mystery Unraveled
by Rabbi Noson WeiszShe was a Moabite princess who converted to Judaism in the 10th century BCE, but what does her story have to do with the events at Mount Sinai more than 300 years earlier?
Looking Glasses of the Soul
by Rabbi Noson WeiszThe Shabbat immediately preceding Passover has a special name. It is called Shabbat HaGadol, "the Great Shabbat." The Tur (Orach Chaim, ...
Right to Life vs. Right Life
by Rabbi Noson WeiszThis week we begin reading the Book of Leviticus, the book of the Torah to which the modern person has the greatest difficulty relating. It is all ...
His Soul's Fire
by Rabbi Noson WeiszThis week's Torah portion manages to symbolize conclusion and renewal at one and the same time. It brings the Book of Exodus to its close, but the ...
Measure For Measure
by Rabbi Noson WeiszTwice in its history, the world stood poised on the brink of perfection. The first occasion was the creation of Adam, born in the Garden of Eden, ...
Jewish Joy
by Rabbi Noson WeiszThis week, Mayanot focuses on the holiday of Purim. Purim is the last of the Jewish holy days to enter the Jewish calendar. To understand what ...
Human Constructions and Constrictions
by Rabbi Noson Weisz"They shall make a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them. According to what I will show you, after the form of the Tabernacle and ...
Clearing Up the Confusion
by Rabbi Noson WeiszThe strongest possible evidence of the importance that the Torah places on ethics is the juxtaposition of the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai ...
Tablets for Living
by Rabbi Noson WeiszThe Torah contains 613 commandments. But, on Mount Sinai -- the only occasion in history when the entire Jewish people had a face-to-face meeting ...
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Judgment Tempered With Mercy
by Rabbi Noson WeiszIs Yom Kippur a day of atonement or a day of judgment? What is the meaning of this day on which decisions regarding life and death are finalized?
Shattering the Hourglass of Time
by Rabbi Noson WeiszSo shall you eat it: your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You shall eat it in haste. It is a Passover offering ...
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Mayanot on Prayer #5: Pouring Out Your Heart
by Rabbi Noson WeiszWithin the Afternoon prayer lays the secret to our survival.
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The Joy of Victory
by Rabbi Noson WeiszHow is the rejoicing of Sukkot associated by the Torah with the commandment of taking the four species?
Open Heart Surgery
by Rabbi Noson WeiszSeven of the ten plagues that God sent against Egypt are in this week's Torah portion. The common perception of the purpose of these plagues is that ...
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Mayanot on Prayer #4: Negotiating with God
by Rabbi Noson WeiszGod is interested in our plans for the world and He wants to hear from us.
Faith Among the Pyramids
by Rabbi Noson WeiszAnd these were the names of the Children of Israel who were coming to Egypt; with Jacob, each man and his household came. Reuben, Simeon...(Exodus ...
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Mayanot on Prayer #3: Fixing the World through...
by Rabbi Noson WeiszPrayer pierces through God's concealment and reattaches the universe to the Divine.
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Mayanot on Prayer #2: Our Father, Our King
by Rabbi Noson WeiszPrayer transforms the desire to satisfy our requests to the desire to satisfy God's requests.
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The Soul #2 - What Do Souls Look Like?
by Rabbi Noson WeiszUnderstanding the five levels of soul and how they relate to man and creation.
The Body and the Self
by Rabbi Noson WeiszAnd the time drew nearer that Israel must die; and he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found grace in your sight, put, I ...
Bracing For Exile
by Rabbi Noson WeiszSo Israel set out with all that he had and he came to Beersheba where he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. God spoke to Israel in ...
