Bo 5772

BS”D Parashat Bo 5772 At Moshe’s threat that the next plague would be a devastating attack of locusts Paro’s advisors appealed to him saying (10:7) “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Do...

Va’ayra 5772

BS”D Shemot and Va’ayra Part A: If a single parasha of the Torah contained a full accounting of the past, together with an informative explanation of the present and a definitive projection for the future, it would be deemed a most remarkable source of wisdom....

Shemot 5772

BS”D Shemot 5772 Plans for the enslavement of the Jewish people began formulating when Paro convened his inner cabinet to discuss the legality, legitimacy and morality of subjugating the family of the man who literally saved the Egyptian nation. The inner...

Vayechi 5772

BS”D Parashat Va’ye’chi 5772 Ya’akov Avienu was the last of the three patriarchs, and the only one to have witnessed the metamorphosis of his small family (father, mother and two brothers) into 12 tribal units, and the beginning of their evolution into...

Va’yigash 5772

BS”D Miketz, Va’yigash and Chanuka 5772 Part A: Parashat Be’ha’alotcha, in the Book of Bamidbar, opens with the appointment of Aharon and his kohanic descendants to light the menorah in the Bet HaMikdash. Rashi raises the question: Why does the issue of the...
Miketz – Chanuka 5772

Miketz – Chanuka 5772

BS”D Parashat Miketz and Chanuka 5772 Part A: Pirsumai Nisa The concept of Pirsumai Nisa (to promulgate a miracle) is a major factor in several mitzvot, such as the public reading of Megilat Esther which records how HaShem intervened in a miraculous manner to...
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