Toldot 5772

BS”D Parashat Toldot 5772 Part A: The overriding question, or rather dilemma, in this week’s parsha is the seemingly irreconcilable behavior of our mother Rivka. That a paragon of Jewish virtue should act in a deceitful manner behind her husband’s back is more...

Chayai Sarah 5772

BS”D Parashat Chayai Sarah 5772 Tractate Megila 29,a Rabbi Elazar HaKapar said: In future times the synagogues and houses of Torah study in Bavel (a euphemism for all the galut exile) will be resettled in Eretz Yisrael Rashi in our parasha (24:17) quotes the...

Vayaira 5772

BS”D Lech Lecha and Vayaira 5772 Part A: Beraishiet 15:18 On that day, HaShem made a covenant with Avraham saying: “I have given this land to your descendants from the River of Egypt (the Nile) until the great river Prat (the Euphrates in today’s...

Lech Lecha 5772

BS”D Parashat Lech Lecha 5772 AGL vs ADL and JDL Beraishiet 12:1 And HaShem said to Avram “Leave your land, your birthplace and your father’s house and go to the land that I will show you. Why the three localities: land, birthplace and father’s home?...

Noach 5772

BS”D Beraisheet and Noach 5772 Part A: In the wake of the monstrous sin of fratricide, HaShem appeared to Kayin with the horrendous, devastating cry that reverberates to this day in the subconscious of every murderer (Beraisheet 4:10) “… Your...

Sukkot 5772

To be understood on the background of the recession and the spreading demonstrations in the US against “Wall Street” which is a code word for Jews A Sukkot Allegory – excerpt from the book “With All Your Might” Reb Yisrael and his sons...