These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: # #1314 – Is One… Read More »Thanking Hashem Must Also Include a Plea for the Future
This week we read the parsha of Va’yaitzay. “Va’yaitzay Yaakov mi’Beer sheva va’yailech Charanah {And Yaakov went out from Beer Sheva and went to Charan}.… Read More »Hey, Looks Like Supper!
Could there be any better guarantee for success than a promise directly from Hashem? Undoubtedly not. If you are fortunate enough to get such a… Read More »Bread Is for Eating
It just doesn’t make sense. After more than twenty years of toiling in the house of Lavan (Laban), Yaakov (Jacob) wants out. He should have… Read More »Smokescreen
And these are the generations (Toldos) of Yitzchok the son of Avraham; Avraham begot Yitzchok. (Breishis 25:19) I walked into a noisy and raucous class… Read More »Living for Toldos
THE JEWISH PEOPLE have had many enemies over the millennia, but most of them were descendants of either Yishmael or Eisav. The amazing thing is… Read More »What?
BS”D Volume 39, No. 6 29 Marcheshvan 5785 November 30, 2024 Sponsored by Robert and Hannah Klein on the yahrzeits of his mother, Dorothy Klein… Read More »Un-natural
Yaakov and the Brochos Yitzchak wanted to give brochos to Eisav, but Rivka intervened and manipulated the outcome, so that Yaakov would receive the brochos. … Read More »Toldos — To Give of Oneself
Yitzchok entreated Hashem opposite his wife, because she was barren.[2] Rivka was barren. So was Soro. And Rochel. And some of the avos. Seems to… Read More »Better Than Giving Orders
Torah is greater than priesthood and kingship, for kingship is acquired with 30 qualities, priesthood is acquired with 24, whereas the Torah is acquired with… Read More »Chapter 6, Mishna 6: Ways 1-2: (1) Studying to Transcend; (2) Listening to Change