December 2020

The Sages did not use the expression ‘World to Come’ because that world does not exist now — that this world will have to be… Read More »Chapter 8, Law 8 – The Future Near and Far

Torah is greater than priesthood and kingship, for kingship is acquired with 30 qualities, priesthood is acquired with 24, whereas the Torah is acquired with… Read More »Chapter 6, Mishna 6: Ways 44-45: Torah to Do

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1186 – Facts About K’rias… Read More »Yehudah’s Sudden Switch

BS”D Volume 35, No. 11 11 Tevet 5781 December 26, 2020 In this week’s Parashah, Yaakov and his family descend to Egypt to be reunited… Read More »Choices That Matter

Tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and all that you saw…Then he fell upon his brother Binyamin’s neck and wept, and Binyamin… Read More »The Price of Fame

This week’s parsha, Vayigash, deals primarily with Yosef revealing his true identity to his brothers and the subsequent descent of Yaakov and his whole family… Read More »The Cause of our Exile

“And they told him, saying ‘Yosef is still alive. He is the ruler of all Egypt’ and his heart became numb, for he did not… Read More »Liar Liar

The Story Rivka and Karen, high school classmates from Chicago, had been excited for months. Almost every day they chatted about camp. They almost screamed… Read More »Tochacha – Rebuke

It was a moment of the purest joy. After so many years of estrangement and separation, Joseph and his brothers were finally being reunited. Most… Read More »Tears of Joy (And Joseph Wept)

It was the ultimate encounter. Yaakov, the consummate theologian, meets Pharoh, the king of the powerful land of Egypt. What could they have discussed? The… Read More »Age Old Questions