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Parshas Vayishlach–No News is Jews News

By: Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky Yaakov’s family faced a tremendous crisis. While passing through the city of Shechem, Dena, their sister was attacked and was violated...

Parshas Vayeitzei–Brothers in Scorn

By: Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky Yaakov's first encounter with his future wife Rachel was significant, encompassing varied emotions, each of which merits lengthy discussion. Upon greeting...

Parshas Vayeitzei – Responsibility for Others

By: Rabbi Benjamin Hecht The story of Rachel's theft of the terafim, the idols1 of her father, as reported in Bereishit 31:19,2 is somewhat of...

Parshat Chaya Sora – The Wisdom of the Zaken

By: Rabbi Benjamin Hecht On the surface, it would seem somewhat appropriate that the story of the search for a wife for Yitzchak Avinu should...

Parshas Chaya Sora – Tips on Finding Your Shidduch

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis A careful study of the parsha even highlights the specifics of courtship and marriage and offers the guidance that we so sorely need...

Parshas Vayera – Torah Manners

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis This week’s parsha imparts to us lessons for life–how we should conduct ourselves in our daily affairs and in our relationships. Interestingly...

Parshas Vayera – Meting Justice; Meeting Kindness

By: Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky In what must be one of the greatest transitional scenes in the entire Biblical narrative, this week the Torah transposes us...

Parshas Lech Lecha–”Ancestral Decisions”

By: Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb Most people do not give much thought to their ancestral origins. But some do, and I am one of...

Parshas Lech Lecha – The Story of Our People

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis In this week’s parsha, the history of the Jewish people commences. Until now, in the portions of Genesis and Noah, we...

Parshat Noach–“Filling in the Blanks”

By: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb The Torah is replete with inspiring stories of its heroes. The lives of Abraham, Jacob, Moses, and David, to name...

Parshas Noach–Do We See Ourselves As G-d Sees Us?

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis There is a famous Midrash based on this week’s parsha that asks, “If there are so many ways through which G-d could have saved Noah,...

Parshas Bereishis – The Secrets of Creation

By: Rabbi Pinchas Winston In the beginning, God made the Heaven and the Earth. (Bereishis 1:1) The words are so incredibly simple, and yet, of course,...

Parshas Ha’Azinu  – For What Should We Repent?

By: Rabbi Binyamin Ze’ev Kahane. ztk’l In these days when Jewish blood is spilled like water, there exists a most confounding attitude nurtured perhaps by...

Parshas Nitzavim-Vayelech–“Lessons of Equality”

By: Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb For the past several weeks, certain ideas have dominated my consciousness. Don't worry, these are not obsessive thoughts, and...

Parshas Nitzavim-Vayelech – Make an Accounting of Your Life

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis The parsha always shows us the way to realize the challenges of the moment, and this week’s parsha Nitzavim is no exception; we...

Parshas Ki Tavo–“Walls Have Ears?”

By: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb We all have our secret lives. I don't mean to say that each of us has a sinister side, which we...

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