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“Avraham made a great feast on the day Yitzchak was weaned” (21:8) Although Rashi interprets “beyom higamal” as “on the day Yitzchak was weaned”,[1] the… Read More »Cutting The Apron Strings

M’lochim 2 4:1 This week’s Haftorah reveals to us an incredible dimension of faith and its astounding result. Out of deep appreciation to a Shunamite… Read More »Haftorah Commentary Parshas Vayera

And it came to pass after these things, that God tested Avraham… (Bereishis 22:1) PROBABLY THE VAST majority of people who have made history did… Read More »Infamous

This Week’s RRR (Relevant Religious Reference): “…Anyone whose wisdom exceeds his good deeds, his wisdom will not endure.” – Ethics of the Fathers (Avos), 3:12… Read More »The ‘Superior Dance’ of the ‘Religious’ Jew?”

In Pashas Vayera, Sora, the 90-year-old wife of Avraham, receives a most surprising piece of information from an even more surprising source. She is told… Read More »Blessing In Disguise

He [Avraham] sat at the tent’s entrance in the heat of the day.[2] Chazal[3] teach that Avraham wished to stand, but Hashem told him to… Read More »Avraham the Judge

BS”D Volume 35, No. 4 20 Marcheshvan 5781 November 7, 2020 Sponsored by the Dimont family in memory of grandmother and great-grandmother Chaya Sarah Tarshish… Read More »A Little Bit

These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1178 – Shabbos Milah of… Read More »Maran Rav Ovadia Yosef, zt”l [1920-2013]

Avram was very wealthy with cattle, silver and gold.[2] “Rain never doused the fire of the wood-pile on the altar; the wind never prevailed over… Read More »Not A Drag

BS”D Volume 35, No. 3 13 Marcheshvan 5781 October 31, 2020 Sponsored by Harold and Gilla Saltzman, on the yahrzeit of his mother, Rebecca Saltzman… Read More »Like Perfume