1️⃣ A short video (1:45) for Parshat Nitzavim, Life Ain’t Easy, But It’s Beautiful https://youtube.com/shorts/Dv_oEA-ZMpo 2️⃣ My Rosh Hashanah drasha from last year, Can We Dream Again? It’s always interesting to see whether a drasha from the past still has meaning a year later. https://bit.ly/46CNCxz

Rav Bendavid, Parshat Ki Tavo 5786 Parashat Ki Tavo teaches us about one of the final mitzvot introduced in the Torah, the mitzvah of Bikkurim. In many ways, Bikkurim spans the entire Jewish experience. A Jew would take the first and choicest fruits of the Land of Israel, bring them to the BHMK, and present them to the Kohen. There, while holding the fruits, he would retell the story of the Jewish people from our earliest beginnings, through slavery and redemption, until our

Rav Bendavid, Parshat Eikev 5786 The Mishnah makes a striking observation about the meaning of Tu B'Av: "לא היו ימים טובים לישראל כחמישה עשר באב וכיום הכיפורים... שבהן בנות ירושלים יוצאות בכלי לבן שאולין... וחולות בכרמים." (תענית כו:) The Mishnah describes the daughters of Jerusalem going out to dance together במחולות, in circles. Why does the Mishnah emphasize the circle? The Bnei Yissaschar, the great Chassidic commentator, points us to another passage at the very end of Ma