January 2021

Where do I start? How can I even begin? The loss is so great, yet we seek to find strength in our pain. When the… Read More »Chapter One Hundred Forty-Four

Yechezkel 28:25 This week’s haftorah teaches us a profound lesson regarding arrogance and self dependency. The prophet Yechezkel is instructed to deliver a crushing message… Read More »Haftorah Summary Parshas Vaera

BS”D Volume 35, No. 14 3 Shevat 5781 January 16, 2021 Sponsored by Martin and Michelle Swartz on the 35th yahrzeit of Martin’s grandmother Elise… Read More »A New Kind of Miracle

I shall take you out from under the burdens of Egypt. I will rescue you from their service. I shall redeem you with an outstretched… Read More »Did That Really Happen to Us?

The Story The Green family arrived in Europe for their long awaited vacation. After picking up their luggage they loaded everything into their rented car… Read More »Parshas Vaera – Praying in a Non-Jewish City

From earliest childhood, we are taught to express our gratitude for anything we receive. Think back. What were the first things your parents taught you?… Read More »Thanking the River

This Week’s RRR (Relevant Religious Reference): “Pharaoh saw that there had been a relief (from the plagues), and kept making his heart stubborn” – Exodus,… Read More »Bring it on! Starring Pharaoh & Bruce Almighty

This week Hashem tells Moshe to inform the B’nai Yisrael, that the good times will soon come. “I shall rescue you, I shall redeem you… Read More »Sour Milk

Shabbos Night IF PHARAOH had actually been the same king who did know Yosef, but who chose to ignore Yosef’s contributions to Egypt, he sure… Read More »The Making of an Evil Leader

Given (lit., “being that it is known”) that the reward for good deeds and the good we will merit if we observe G-d’s ways as… Read More »Chapter 9, Law 1(b) – The Story of Planet Earth, Part II