These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: ##1315 – Did The Gadol… Read More »The Key to Yaakov’s Gratitude is Hayarden HaZEH
Once upon a time Daphna knocked on her older sister’s bedroom door. “Aviva, can you help me with my math homework?” “Sure, come on in”… Read More »Vows and Dreams
Divine providence seems to work in strange ways, especially for Joseph languishing in an Egyptian prison. Unjustly accused of making advances to Potiphar’s wife, Joseph… Read More »Freeing the Spirit
The story of Yoseph’s discord with his brothers’ waxes as a factual, albeit eternal, analogy to feuding Jews. There are dreams and fantasies, jealousies and… Read More »Tainted Intent
THERE IS THIS joke about a woman who cried the first time she read the story about Yosef’s kidnapping and how he suffered. But her… Read More »Remorse Now
And he (Yaakov) went ahead of them and prostrated himself to the ground seven times, until he came close to his brother. And Esav ran… Read More »A Brotherly Embrace
Fear and Battle Yaakov wanted to make peace with his brother. He went out of the way to greet him before coming home to his… Read More »The Sleeping Bandit
Yaakov’s sons…were distressed, and were full of indignation. For [Shechem] had committed an outrage in Israel by violating a daughter of Yaakov, and such a… Read More »The Oil of Victory
Yaakov prepared himself to confront his brother — a man who 22 years ago set out in a rage to kill him. Yaakov had no… Read More »All… Most
WHICH WAS THE real fight, the one with the “stranger” the night before, or with Eisav the next day? Clearly the one with the stranger… Read More »The Real Fight