This week’s parsha, Parshas Miketz, opens with the two dreams of Pharaoh.  While Yosef is languishing in prison, Hashem is arranging events so that Yosef’s fate will abruptly change.  In his first dream, Pharaoh sees seven skinny, gaunt cows consuming seven healthy, robust cows along...

In this week’s parsha, Parshas Toldos, after twenty years of marriage and a difficult pregnancy, Yitzchak and Rivka are blessed with twin boys.   וַיִּמְלְאוּ יָמֶיהָ, לָלֶדֶת; וְהִנֵּה תוֹמִם, בְּבִטְנָהּ - When her term to bear grew full, behold! twins in her womb; וַיֵּצֵא הָרִאשׁוֹן אַדְמוֹנִי,...

Parshas Lech Licha, the dawn of our history, the birth of our nation.  And Hashem said to Avram: לֶךְ-לְךָ מֵאַרְצְךָ וּמִמּוֹלַדְתְּךָ וּמִבֵּית אָבִיךָ, אֶל-הָאָרֶץ, אֲשֶׁר אַרְאֶךָּ - go to yourself, from your land, and from your birthplace, and from the house of your father, to...