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Parshas Vayigash relates the climax to one of the most well known episodes in our illustrious history-the story of Yosef revealing himself to his...

Thanking Hashem for Misfortune and Deliverance Rabbeinu Yonah writes in Shaarei Teshuvah When one receives Hashem's chastisement and as a consequence improves his ways, it...

Vayehi mikeitz shenasayim yamim u'Paroh choleim v'hinei omeid al sfas haye'or (41:1) By linking the end of the two years of Yosef's additional jail time...

The Chashmonaim are known to be one of the more illustrious families in our storied history. If not for them, Torah and mitzvos could...

Aside from on Thanksgivukah, by the time most people usually get home from work, the time to kindle the Chanukah lights has already arrived....

The following is meant as a convenient review of Halachos pertaining to Chanuka. The Piskei Din for the most part are based purely on...

HISTORICAL CONTEXT Chanukah occurred during the time of the Second Beis HaMikdash approximately in the year 3596/165 B.C.E. The Seleucid Greeks (or Syrian Greeks) ruled...

Yosef and His Brothers: The Anatomy of a Sale ...and Joseph would bring evil reports about them to their father (Bereishis 37:2). Just as the halachic...

V'hinei ha'shemesh v'ha'yareiach v'achad asar kochavim mishtachavim li (37:9) Yosef dreamed that the sun, the moon, and 11 stars - which represented his father, mother,...

In this week’s parsha, Yosef was confronted with a nisayon from the wife of Potiphar. On a basic level, this was an incredible temptation...

Deracheha Darchei Noam Its Ways Are Ways of Pleasantness And Yaakov was very frightened and distressed (Bereishis 32 7). Rashi comments that Yaakov was frightened lest...

When the Malachim returned to Yaakov, they gave him the grim report. Esav was advancing towards Yaakov with a frighteningly large army. He started...

The Jewish Home Not like Avraham who called it "mountain," and not like Yitzchak who called it "field," but rather like Yaukov who called...

Vayeitzei Yaakov miBe'er Shava vayeilech Charana (28:10) The parsha begins by relating that Yaakov departed from Be'er Sheva and went to Charan. As the Torah...

After all the hardships that Yaakov had endured with Lavan, they made amends and feasted over a korban together. When they were finished, the...

And the children clashed within her (Bereishis 25:22). Whenever she passed the entrances to the House of Study of Ever, Yaakov struggled to exit, ...

Va'yetar Yitzchok l'Hashem l'nochach ishto ki akara hee va'yei'aseir lo Hashem va'tahar Rivkah ishto (25:21) After 20 childless years of marriage, Yitzchok and Rivkah petitioned...

Parshas Toldos begins recounting the birth of Yaakov and Esav. When describing Esav the pasuk states that he came out of the womb ‘extremely...

Remembering the Day of Death Sarah died in Kiriath Arba which is Hebron in the land of Canaun. And Abraham came to eulogize Sarah and...

Vayakam Avrohom me'al p'nei meiso vay'dabeir el b'nei Cheis leimor ger v'toshav anochi imachem t'nu li achuzas kever imachem v'ekb'ra meisi mil'fanai (23:3-4) The Gemora...

After last week’s spellbinding account of the akeida, this week we start off by revealing the death of Sara Imeinu. The pasuk says (23:...

Avrohom Avinu sets off in search for a burial site for Sarah Imeinu, with his eyes set on buying Mearas Hamachpeila from Efron. Efron...

The Value of a Friend's Advice And God appeared to him in the plains of Mamre (Bereishis 18:1). The Midrash relates that when Hashem commanded Avraham...

Yukach na me'at mayim ... v'ekcha pas lechem v'sa'adu lib'chem (18:4-5) Avrohom excelled in the mitzvah of hosting guests. Three days after he had circumcised...

When Hashem was preparing to eradicate Sedom, He made a decision to inform Avraham of His plans. He told Avraham that they were an...

This week’s Sedra contains one of the most perplexing portions of the Torah. Avraham Avinu, who preached against human sacrifice at a time when...

Abram took Sarai his wife and his nephew Lot, and all their wealth that they had amassed, and the people they had acquired in...

Vayehi ka'asher hikriv la'vo Mitzraymah vayomer el Sarai ishto hinei na yadati ki isha yefas mareh at (12:11) Due to a famine in the land...

The end of this week’s parsha discusses that Hashem gave us the commandment of bris milah and how Avraham and Yishmael were both circumcised. Dovid...

Hashem announces to Avrohom that Sarah Imeinu will have a child he will be considered his only eternal child. Hashem explains that only this...

This weeks parsha begins with the well-known words of נֹחַ אִישׁ צַדִּיק תָּמִים הָיָה בְּדֹרֹתָיו, meaning Noach was righteous, and a tamim; he was...

The following is meant as a convenient review of Halachos pertaining to Chol-Hamoed. The Piskei Din for the most part are based purely on the...

The following is meant as a convenient review of Halachos pertaining to Eiruv Tavshilin. The Piskei Din for the most part are based purely...

The mishna is Succah (28b) says that if it rains on Succos it is comparable to a slave that comes to pour a cup...

Rambam in hilchos teshuva, (perek aleph) asks how one says viduy (where one accepts and confesses they have sinned). He answers, we say ‘Ana...