December 2024

This week’s Parsha continues the gripping narrative of Yosef as he continues the drama of targeting his brothers as dishonest people, threatening to take Binyomin… Read More »Piecing Together the Jigsaw Puzzle

At the onset of this week’s portion, Yehuda pleads with Yoseph, Egypt’s viceroy, for mercy. Binyamin was framed for a crime he did not commit.… Read More »Whole Justice

THIS IS FROM God, that which is wondrous in our eyes” (Tehillim 118:23). I remember the day during Chanukah one year when it all of… Read More »Leadership Pains

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1317 – Oops! I Bentched… Read More »The Meaning of Yosef’s Gratitude: “I Have Forgotten All About My Father’s House”

“Hadlaka Oseh Mitzvah” – “Lighting makes the Mitzvah” – The Rema in Shulchan Aruch – Orach Chaim 671:6 “Hadlaka Oseh Mitzvah” – “Lighting makes the… Read More »Just the Beginning

It happened at the end of two years that Paroh was dreaming…[2] Chazal’s[3] understanding of this verse is confusing. On the one hand, they see… Read More »Geulah on Steroids

This Shabbos, the final day of Chanukah, we read the parsha of Miketz. “Va’y’hee miketz shnasa’yim yamim u’Paroah cholaim {And it was at the end… Read More »Dreams etc.

“…seven cows of beautiful appearance and robust flesh…” (41:2) Pharaoh dreams that as he is standing over the Nile seven cows “y’fos mareh” – “of… Read More »To Fergin or Forget

Our story deals with the holiday of Chanukah. What connection could there be between the story of Chanukah and our parsha?: Parshas Miketz deals with… Read More »Lighting the Menorah

There was no convincing the Egyptian viceroy. Jacob’s sons kept protesting that they had come to Egypt in all innocence to buy grain for their… Read More »A Change of Heart