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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

And HASHEM said to Avram, “Go for yourself from your land, from your birthplace, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will… Read More »To Hear with Our Heels