Rabbi Daniel Glatstein currently serves as the Rav and Morah D"asra of Kehilas Ahavas Yisroel, a vibrant and bustling young Kehilla where he offers daily shiurim and guidance to more than 100 young families. Previously, he spent five years building up and reviving the oldest Orthodox shul in Kew Gardens Hills from a dwindling membership to a vibrant center of Torah learning for the entire Queens community, attracting dozens of new members of all ages. Among his many weekly shiurim, Rabbi Glatstein delivers a popular weekly shiur to Bnei Torah, Baaleh Batim and college students on Parshas HaShavua and other timely topics in his own shul as well as in Rabbi Oelbaum's shul, K'hal Nachlas Yitzchak, through the Agra-Dpirka shiur network. He is often invited to serve as a guest speaker in Yeshivos and Torah Institutions across the Tri-State area and his shiurim have been received enthusiastically by audiences of all backgrounds and affiliations. Rabbi Glatstein has semicha from the Rabbinical Seminary of America,Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim as well as from Harav Noach Isaac Oelbaum.
We received the luchot twice – on Shavuot and on Yom Kippur. Why is the physical-based celebration on Shavuot and the spiritual-based celebration on Yom Kippur – it should be the opposite! Why do we celebrate Shavuot as the day when we received the Torah – we didn’t receive the Torah then – those luchot […]
The gematria of Moav is 49 corresponding to the days of Sefirah in which we try to overcome the negative Moabite influence so that we can merit the birth of David HaMelech on Shavuot. Why did Elimelech leave during the famine – no one else left? The Malbim answers the question based on a careful […]
What is Yetziv Pitgam? Why is it inserted in the Haftarah for the Second day of Shavuot (which is taken from Chavakuk)? Why is there a piyut for laining on the first day and for the haftarah on the second day? Why do we say Akdamut before leining and Yetziv Pitgam in the middle of […]
“ויאמר יהוה מסיני בא וזרח משעיר למו הופיע מהר פארן ואתה מרבבת קדש מימינו אש דת למו” Rashi says that this pasuk teaches that in heaven, the Torah is like black fire on white fire. The Ramban says that in Hashem’s Torah which is black fire written on white fire, the letters are contiguous (not […]
The Rashba asks: Why don’t we recite Birchat HaTorah when we finish learning as we do when receiving an aliyah to the Torah? Because we don’t make a bracha when mitzvot are over. The Steipler asks: What kind of question is that – the reason should be because we never finish learning! When you make […]
Why did the 24,000 students of Rebbi Akiva specifically stop dying on Lag BaOmer? Why do we recite Tehillim 67 after counting the Omer? Why is the verse “יודוך עמים אלקים יודוך אלקים כולם” repeated? Why is the number five associated with gratitude? (Rav Yosef Engel brings nine examples) What is the connection between Lag […]
Belzer Rebbe: Hillel’s source for eating the Korban Pesach in a sandwich (Korech) is not from the Parsha of Korban Pesach (Shemot 12), it’s from the Parsha of Pesach Sheni! Regarding Pesach Rishon it says: צלי אש ומצות. על מרורים יאכלוהו! Some hold there is a misprint and the pasuk quoted should be the one […]
The Tur writes that we celebrate Lag BaOmer because that is the day the students of Rebbe Akiva stopped dying. Why is that a reason to celebrate – they stopped dying because there were none left! Why don’t we make a shehechiyanu on Sefirat HaOmer? Why does the Torah mention Shabbos and the Omer in […]
What is the thematic connection between Rosh Chodesh, David HaMelech, and the Davidic dynasty? Why do we read this haftarah just because it begins with the phrase “Machar Chodesh”? An answer from Rav Shimon Schwab. Like Shaul we notice that Dovid is missing (i.e. Moshiach hasn’t come) and we ask why hasn’t Ben Yishai Come? […]
If someone forgets יעלה ויבא in bentching on Rosh Chodesh one doesn’t repeat bentching, the Yerushalmi rules he has to repeat bentching (because it holds having a seudah is obligatory on Rosh Chodesh). Why is it obligatory? Shiur provided courtesy of Torah Anytime
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