Category: Rabbi David Weissman
The High Holidays or High Holy Days, in Judaism, more properly known as the Yamim Noraim (Hebrew: ימים נוראים “Days of Awe”), may mean: strictly, the holidays of Rosh Hashanah (“Jewish New Year”) and...
1 To the conductor with melodies, a song of David. אלַמְנַצֵּ֥חַ בִּנְגִינ֗וֹת מִזְמ֥וֹר לְדָוִֽד: 2 When I call, answer me, O God of my righteousness; in my distress You have relieved me, be gracious...
Rabbi Shimon the Righteous tells us, “Upon three things the world stands” (P.A. 1:2), as in a three-legged stool. These three things are torah (learning), avodah (worship or service to God), and g’milut chasadim...
Rabbi Dovid Weissman speaks on the power of personal prayer. Using the text from Psalm 4 he describes the wonderful relationship tase with all man. IF mankind would reach out to G-D and connect.
A song of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. 2 O Lord, how many have my adversaries become! Great men rise up against me. 3 Great men say concerning my soul, “He...
The Ten Commandments says to “Honor your Parents.” It does not command “love” your parents. The Torah is very free with the word love in love the stranger, love your neighbor, and love G-d;...
The Four Steps of Repentance OU Staff Teshuvah (Return, or Repentance) is a generous gift from G-d, which allows us to erase our improper actions through a four-step process (see below). The Torah tells...
Rabbi Dovid Weissman speaks about Three Essentials of Teshuvah in reference to Yom Kippur. In the Jewish tradition, repentance is called teshuvah , a Hebrew word translated as “returning.” One of the Hebrew words...
1A song of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. 2O Lord, how many have my adversaries become! Great men rise up against me. 3Great men say concerning my soul, “He has no...
1A song of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. 2O Lord, how many have my adversaries become! Great men rise up against me. 3Great men say concerning my soul, “He has no...
Psalm One 1. The praises of a man are that he did not follow the counsel of the wicked, neither did he stand in the way of sinners nor sit in the company of...
This Tehillim Series by Rabbi David Weissman will be dealing with Psalm 1:1-2. 1:1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners,...