“And Esav said to Yaakov, “Pour into me, now, from this very red food for I am exhausted.” Therefore, he is called Edom”. (Parshat Toldot; 25:30) Esav comes home from […]
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Every seven years, during the Holy Temple era, the king would get up on a platform and read a number of sections from the Torah which contain various commandments and […]
Free Within On Erev Pesach, 1978, Yosef Mendelovich sat in a Soviet prison cell. His face was gaunt with starvation, his body clothed in rags. For months, he had been […]
On Passover, we celebrate our liberation from Egypt and our independence from the reign of the brutal Egyptians. It would seem ironic that instead of celebrating this momentous occasion with […]
Parshas Vayikra begins with discussing various sacrifices which one could bring voluntarily, without a specific circumstance obligating him to do so. Rabbi Ya’akov Yisroel Kanievsky ponders (in Birchas Peretz) why […]
In the beginning of this week’s Torah reading, the Torah lists all the materials that were necessary to be donated for the construction of the Mishkan (Tabernacle). All the way […]
This week’s Torah reading, Parshas Vayigash, describes the migration of Jacob’s family toEgypt. As the clan neared Egypt, the verse says (46:28) that Jacob sent his sonJudah ahead to arrange […]
A Life Lesson from Our Father Yaakov In the beginning of this week’s Torah reading, Parshas Vayishlach, Jacob returns to his homeland where his brother Esau is preparing to attack […]
Significance of Chanukah: The Strong in the Hands of the Weak “The strong in the hands of the weak!” You may recognize those words from the Al Hanisim prayer, where […]
In this week’s Torah reading, Parshas Metzorah, the Torah details the process of purification of the “Metzorah” – someone who was afflicted with Tzara’as (a specific kind of skin disease) […]
