December 2024

I have a good friend whose son was at a decision making stage about five years ago. He needed to decide what he would do… Read More »Unsolicited Advice

This week’s parsha follows the miraculous rise of Yosef from the time he is pulled from the pit of an Egyptian jail and transformed to… Read More »A Higher Calling

I have mentioned several times in the past that when Yosef, as Viceroy of Egypt, accused his brothers of being meraglim—spies, it was a coded… Read More »Thinking Deeper

BS”D Volume 39, No. 10 27 Kislev 5785 December 28, 2024 Sponsored by Faith Ginsburg on the yahrzeit of her sister Ann Rita Schwartz (Chana… Read More »Time to Dream

The Chamberlain of the Baker saw that he had interpreted well, so he said to Yosef, “I too! In my dream- behold! Three wicker baskets… Read More »To Prepare… Prepare… Prepare!

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: ##1316 – Endangering Oneself to… Read More »The Lesson of Ki Im Zechartani – So That You Will Remember Me

BS”D Volume 39, No. 9 20 Kislev 5785 December 28, 2024 Our Parashah opens: “Vayeishev / Yaakov settled in the land of his father’s sojournings,… Read More »No Rest

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all the brothers, and they hated him…[2] A medrash[3] inexplicably asks about the reason for… Read More »Sea of Hatred

This week’s parsha, Vayeshev, begins: “Vayeshev Yaakov B’eretz M’guray Aviv (37:1)” – and Yaakov settled in the land where his father had resided. The Kli… Read More »Just Passing Through

“…And Yosef would bring evil reports about them to their father”(37:2) The Torah records that Yosef’s brothers hated him because he reported to Yaakov transgressions… Read More »Because I Care