In this week’s parsha, Parshas Bo, Pharaoh, his countrymen, and the land of Egypt are further decimated by the three final plagues: arbeh (locusts), choshech (six days of darkness), and makkas bechoros (the death of the firstborn). With the final plague, as death runs rampant throughout...
In this week’s parsha, Parshas Va’era, the Israelite slaves will finally see that redemption is on its way, as the Eser Makkos (Ten Plagues) begin to unfold, when G-d unleashes His power and might upon Pharaoh and his countrymen. While wreaking havoc to the natural...
In this week’s parsha, Parshas Shemos, we open the book of Shemos once again. וְאֵלֶּה, שְׁמוֹת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל, הַבָּאִים, מִצְרָיְמָה אֵת יַעֲקֹב, אִישׁ וּבֵיתוֹ בָּאוּ - and these are the names of the Bnei Yisrael who came to Egypt, Yaakov, each man and his household...
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With this week’s parsha, Parshas Vayechi, the curtain once again closes on the Book of Bereishis. As many times as we have journeyed and learned through the Book of Bereishis, it is always most impactful, enriching, and rewarding to do so once again. And every...
In this week’s parsha, Parshas Vayigash, after Yosef’s shocking revelation, “I am Yosef, is my father still alive?” (Bereishis 45:3), Yaakov and his family descend, en masse, to Egypt. Yosef, the Provider and Viceroy of Egypt (and the entire ancient Middle East), will sustain his...
In this week’s parsha, Parshas Miketz, freedom comes suddenly for Yosef ha’Tzadik, Yosef the righteous, who has languished for the past twelve years in Egyptian jail, after wrongly accused - and framed - of attempting to seduce Eishes Potiphar (Ch.39). After ten years in jail, one...
This Sunday evening, 24 Kislev 5780, corresponding to December 22, we will light the first Chanukah candle as we commemorate both the miracle of oil and the Maccabee victory over Antiochus and his men (B”T Shabbos 21b). Based on the teachings of R’ Avraham Yitzchak ha’Koken...
In this week’s parsha, Parshas Vayishlach, Yaakov Avinu is returning home to Eretz Yisrael after having lived for the past twenty years with Lavan, his uncle/father-in-law. During this time, he married his wives - Leah, Zilpah, Rachel and Bilhah, fathered eleven sons and one daughter,...
As this week’s parsha, Parshas Vayeitzei, opens, we meet Yaakov Avinu on the run. Fleeing the wrath of his brother Eisav over the contested blessings, Yaakov is running to the home of Lavan, his uncle, where he will marry his wives and establish his family,...