published by Anonymous (not verified) on March 6, 2011 - 9:20am
As I was driving to Yerushalayim this morning, I was welcomed by the most amazing sight in the valley at the bottom of our mountain. The almond trees are in full bloom and are incredibly beautiful. Alongside them are lots of plum trees, which look very poor, as they haven't yet started to bloom and they're totally bare. There are also olive trees down there in large amounts, and these are the only fruit trees (to my knowledge) that are evergreens. It's an incredible array of the scope of the beauty of Hashem's creation.
published by Anonymous (not verified) on February 26, 2011 - 7:30pm
The Parasha is basically a repetition of the details of the Mishkan which we've been learning for the last few weeks. Even Rashi has very little to say about the Parasha, since he's already explained all the details which are gone over again this week. The question is why do we need to have two Parashas (also next week's) which are adding almost nothing new.
