After hundreds of years in Egypt, and a century of slavery, followed by a miraculous salvation and Divinely orchestrated Exodus, wherein the nation achieved physical freedom, the Torah now moves to the next chapter on the path to freedom: Matan Torah - the giving of...
In lieu of a written dvar torah this week (which I did not have time to write due to my trip to Israel B”H), here is the shiur link to a shiur I presented Wed. evening (1/24/24) in J'lem, for the OU WI 2nd Nach...
In this week’s parsha, Parshas Bo, the Bnei Yisrael finally march to freedom. After 210 years in Egypt, the redemption unfolds. The final three makkos - locusts, darkness, and the plague of the firstborn - are brought upon Egypt, the final blow that decimates an...
In this week’s parsha, Parshas Va’era, the long awaited redemption begins to unfold. After almost 210 years in Egypt, the Bnei Yisrael are about to go free. The first of the seven makkos are brought upon the Egyptians in this parsha, as Hashem begins to...
With the opening of Sefer Shemos - ברוך שהחיינו וקימנו והגיענו לזמן הזה - we learn once again about the Egyptian exile, enslavement, subjugation and bitter lives the Bnei Yisrael lived, suffering at the hands of Pharaoh and Egypt. The methods of subjugation included propaganda...
This week’s parsha, Parshas Vayechi, is the final one in the book of Bereishis. After a tumultuous, albeit successful, life - losing his mother as a young boy of 8 or 9 years old, being hated and rejected by his brothers, being sold by them...
In parshas Vayigash, after twenty-two long, painful and productive years, Yosef and his family are reunited. After Yehuda’s passionate soliloquy to save his brother, Binyamin, from being kept as a servant by the at-times-cruel, at-times-kind, erratic and strange viceroy of Egypt, Yosef reveals himself to his...
In Parshas Miketz, the mazal of Yosef the prisoner, the slave, the rejected, is about to change in the blink of an eye. When Pharaoh dreams two dreams that no one can interpret to his liking - sickly and healthy cows on the shore of...
In the beginning of Parshas Vayeishev we learn of Yosef the Beloved Son, Yosef the Owner of the Kesones Pasim, Yosef the Dreamer… Yosef who is ostracized by his brothers. Yosef was seventeen years old and was a shepherd with his brothers; he would spend...
In Parshas Vayishlach, Yaakov Avinu travels back to the land of Canaan, after working for Lavan for twenty years. Fourteen years of servitude were for his wives, and six more years for his flocks. En route home, he fears the wrath of his brother Eisav...