In this week’s parsha, Parshas Terumah, Hashem commands Moshe to instruct the Bnei Yisrael regarding the building of the Mishkan, the Tabernacle, that would accompany the nation on their desert travels. It is from this hallowed and sanctified space that the Kohanim would serve as...
In this week’s parsha, Parshas Mishpatim, the Torah outlines a total of fifty-three mitzvos, presented to us in the immediate aftermath the giving of the Torah in Parshas Yisro. While Parshas Yisro and Matan Torah were the “fire and lights show” of Revelation, Parshas Mishpatim...
In the very beginning of this week’s parsha, Parshas Yisro, Moshe’s father-in-law, Yisro comes to the Israelite camp in the desert. After hearing about the miracles G-d wrought and how He saved the Israelite nation from the Egyptians, split the Reed Sea, gave them manna...
In this week’s parsha, Parshas Beshalach, Pharaoh and his army give chase, running after the former Israelite - now newly freed - slaves. When Pharaoh and his army catch up with the Bnei Yisrael camped on the shore of the Reed Sea, panic breaks out...
In this week’s parsha, Parshas Bo, after two hundred and ten years in Egypt, the Bnei Yisrael leave the shackles of shibud Mitzrayim behind and march forward to a hopeful future. After the Ten Plagues, many miracles, signs and wonders, and after finally realizing that...
In the beginning of this week’s parsha, Parshas Va’era, Hashem speaks to Moshe and says to him: I am Hashem… and I have also heard the groans of the Children of Israel that Mitzrayim is enslaving them and I remembered my covenant; Therefore say to...
Sefer Shemos/Sefer ha’Geula, Parshas Shemos 5782. Baruch she’he’chiyanu v’ki’yimanu v’hi’gi’yanu la’zman ha’zeh… וְאֵלֶּה שְׁמוֹת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל, הַבָּאִים, מִצְרָיְמָה: אֵת יַעֲקֹב, אִישׁ וּבֵיתוֹ בָּאוּ - and these are the names of the Children of Israel who came to Egypt; Yaakov, each man and his household...
Parshas Vayechi Yaakov. Shabbos Chazak chazak v’nis’chazek. The curtain once again closes on Sefer Bereishis: the end of a sefer, the conclusion of the narratives of the lives of our Patriarchs and Matriarchs, the end of an era with the end of the life of...
In this week’s parsha, Parshas Vayigash, we learn of one of the most dramatic, climactic, emotional and riveting narratives in Sefer Bereishis. After having been disposed of by his brothers, and subsequently sold twenty-two years earlier, and seemingly having been lost forever - in a...
In this week’s parsha, Parshas Miketz, Yosef’s fate seemingly changes overnight. With hardly a moment’s notice, he goes from being slave-boy turned prisoner to viceroy of the most powerful country in the ancient world! When Pharaoh dreams dreams that no one can interpret to his liking,...