Miketz and Chanuka 5773

Parashat Miketz and Chanuka 5773 Dual dreams played a very important role in the life of Yosef. His dual dreams of wielding domination and power, the dual dreams of Paro’s Minister of the Wineries and Minister of the Bakeries, and Paro’s dual dream of the emaciated...

Vayaishev 5773

BS”D Parashat Vayaishev 5773 What does the Honorable Ron Prosor, our Ambassador to the UN, have in common with Yosef, son of Yaakov, Viceroy of Egypt? The Midrash (Devarim, Va’atchanan parasha 2) records: Rabbi expounded that Moshe argued before HaShem,...

Vayishlach 5773

BS”D Parashat Vayishlach 5773 Part A: Our parasha lays down the schematic plans for the future of Am Yisrael, as quoted in the name of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Sifrei Bamidbar chapter 69 so plainly and without extravagance or embellishment: It is a well-known...

Vayaitzai 5773

BS”D Parashat Vayaitzai 5773 Part A: As this is being written, the army of Israel is poised to perform a Torah mitzva of “mechi’at Amalek” – by destroying a great number of arch evil people of Amalek. However, after pounding the Arabs of Gaza...

Toldot 5773

BS”D Parashat Toldot 5773 Part A: Our parasha relates (26:2-5): 2 The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live. 3 Stay in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your...

Chayai Sarah 5773

Last Shabbat we read in parashat Vayaira, how Hagar was sent away from Avraham’s home together with her son Yishmael. They wandered in the desert until the waterskin was empty, and then sat under the blazing sun waiting to die. The pasuk relates (Beraishiet 21:15-16):...
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