December 2021

In this week’s reading we are introduced to a new Pharoah, “who did not know Joseph” [Ex. 1:8]. Pharoah had an imagined, entirely unfounded worry:… Read More »Balancing the Scale

In this week’s parsha, Shemos we read about Moshe’s first encounter with Hashem while shepherding his sheep in the barren wilderness. Hashem revealed Himself to… Read More »Bleeding Hearts-Lofty Souls

Nothing human is ever permanent. Perhaps the only exception to this rule is human nature itself, which, seemingly, has never changed from the days of… Read More »We Shouldn’t Ignore this Lesson from Egypt

This week we begin the Sefer of Shemos. The Parsha begins with the story of Ya’akov and his family descending to Egypt. One might wonder… Read More »Pharoah and “the Jewish Problem”

Moshe was pasturing the flocks of Yisro, his father-in-law, the chief of Midian, and he led the flocks after the desert (free pastureland), and he… Read More »About One Thing

Go and assemble the elders of Israel, and say to them, “…I have surely remembered you, and what is being done to you in Egypt.”[2]… Read More »Too Much Information

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: #1188 – Cho’shaid Be’keshayrim –… Read More »Presenting the Names of an All-Star Lineup!

He [Hillel] further saw a skull floating on the water. He said to it: ‘Because you drowned you were drowned, and in the end those… Read More »Chapter 2, Mishna 7: Spiritual Cause and Effect

BS”D Volume 36, No. 13 21 Tevet 5782 December 25, 2021 Sponsored by the Edeson & Stern families on the 3rd yahrzeit of Jacob S.… Read More »In Our Youth

It was a test for the ages. The mighty Pharaoh commanded the midwives Shifra and Puah, known to us as Yocheved and her daughter Miriam,… Read More »Growth Investment