כמה פעמים קרה חשבתם שנייר או מסמך איננו חשוב באותו הרגע, ולכן שמתם אותו בצד בלי לשים לב היכן או איבדתם אותו, ורק אחר-כך גיליתם שהוא חשוב ובדיוק הדבר שנחוץ לכם ביותר לעניין כזה או אחר? דבר שנראה פעוט ערך וחסר חשיבות ברגע... READ MORE →
After the death of Sarah, Avraham remarries to a woman named Keturah. Rashi, following Midrash, states that she was Hagar, the woman whom he had married earlier at the behest of Sarah herself and who became the mother of Yishmael. The Torah records for us that Avraham fathered further children with Ketura and that these children left the house of Avraham to found families and clans of their own... READ MORE →
Our father Avraham pleads for the forgiveness and survival of Sodom. He strikes the best READ MORE →
Our father Avraham and our mother Sarah are the paradigm Jews. Their lives and the events that occurred to them are symbolic of the story of the Jewish people throughout the ages. This is certainly the meaning of the well known phrase of the rabbis that READ MORE →
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The rabbis of the Talmud have taught us that all new beginnings are fraught with difficulties. This week READ MORE →
There are songs and there are songs. The song of Moshe and the people of Israel at Yam Suf is a song of victory and exultation. It is read in the synagogue with a special haunting melody that accompanies it. It is recited every morning in our daily prayer service and it is referred to every evening in the Maariv service. It is a song of hope and triumph. The song of Haazinu, which is read in this... READ MORE →
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There is a cynical but unfortunately accurate statement rife in the ranks of diplomats that treaties are made to be broken. We here in Israel have plenty of experience with that viewpoint and assessment of international life. However, in this week READ MORE →
This week's parsha deals with the frighteningly accurate prediction of the awful fate of the Jewish people over its long exile. The tochacha chillingly forecasts the horrors of the Holocaust and of all of the previous destructions, persecutions, pogroms and disasters that have befallen the Jews over the long centuries of dispersion. The Torah itself in a forthcoming parsha asks the obvious... READ MORE →
