In this week’s parsha, Parshas Vayeira, Avraham Avinu is tested with his tenth, and most difficult, test: Akeidas Yitzchak, the Binding of Isaac. “Take your son, your only one, the one that you love, Yitzchak, and go for yourself to the land of Moriah, and...

Sefer Bereishis, Parshas Bereishis, In the Beginning Hashem Created… When we closed the book of Devarim on Simchas Torah, we left Moshe atop Mt. Nevo, we left the Israelite nation poised to cross the Jordan River under the tutelage of Yehoshua, and we left forty years...

Moshe then calls to Yehoshua - who will lead the nation after Moshe’s demise - and encourages him as well: חֲזַק וֶאֱמָץ--כִּי אַתָּה תָּבוֹא אֶת-הָעָם הַזֶּה, אֶל-הָאָרֶץ - Be strong and courageous, for you shall come with this people to the Land…(see Devarim 31:1-7). Moshe speaks...

We are now hours away from the Yom Ha’Din, the awesome Day of Judgement, Rosh HaShana 5776.  It is interesting to consider the different names for our New Year: ראש השנה - The New Year; literally The Head of the Year.  I heard a beautiful insight last...

In this week’s parsha, Parshas Ki Savo, the Torah tells us that when we will be blessed, Hashem will put us לְרֹאשׁ, וְלֹא לְזָנָב, וְהָיִיתָ רַק לְמַעְלָה, וְלֹא תִהְיֶה לְמָטָּה - for the head and not for the tail, we shall be only above and...