Remarkable letter of the Noam Elimelech’s son as to why great Tzadikim are often humiliated and assaulted by prominent Rov or rosh yeshiva and how Avrohom left כנען as a result of such harassment
Did Avrohom show a lack of trust by leaving כנען as a result of the famine? - Ramban and the Barditchever offer different views
Nice pshat of Reb Meir Shapiro קום התהלך לארכה ולרחבה - today was the yartzeit of Reb Meir Shapiro
The historic controversy re the status of a prospective convert who has had his Bris but not Mikvah
יומם ולילה לא ישבותו - what is the definition of rest for a ben noach?
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The world was covered by water twice - in the beginning of Creation and during the flood. Why?
The Midrash explains that Hashem’s praise came originally from water as the world was enveloped entirely in water. Chassidus gives a deeper understanding of this.
Beautiful insight of the Holy Riziner on מי הגיד לך כי עירום אתה
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Geshmaker vort of Reb Levi Yitzchok Barditchever about the order of the creation of שמים וארץ
Yartzeit of Reb Levi Yitzcok Barditchever. His beautiful insight into the puzzling Midrash which asks which actions does Hashem prefer? The actions of tzadikim or the ones of the Resha’im.
Reb Levi Yitzchok of Barditchev on בראשית ברא אלוקים and the connection to ה׳ מלך, ה׳ מלך, ה׳ ימלוך
What prayer did Avrohom Avinu say on Har Hamoryiah? - מי שענה לאברהם אבינו בהר המורי׳.
The Shelah Hakodosh and the Maharsha
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