Parshat Bo 5780
Parshat Bo תש"פ On Rosh HaShanah this year, the Jewish Calendar year changed from 5779 to 5780 (“Rosh HaShanah” means the “head of the year” or the beginning of the new year.) This number represents the years that have passed…
Parshat Va’eira 5780
Parshat Va’eira תש"פ When HaShem appeared to Moshe at the Burning Bush, and Moshe responded that the people would not believe that HaShem had really appeared to him, HaShem gave Moshe three miracles to perform to convince the people. The…
Parshat Shemot 5780
Shemot תש"פ This week we begin the second book of the Torah, Shemot - Exodus. The book of Shemot begins with the Jewish people’s slavery and redemption from Egypt, concluding with the completion of the Tabernacle. Despite Moshe and Aharon…
Parshat Vayechi 5780
Parshat Vayechi תש"פ When thumbing through the pages of the Chumash, have you ever wondered what the פפפ or ססס at the end of almost every Parshah in the Torah mean? The פ stands for פתוחה,an open paragraph, and the…
Parshat Vayigash 5780
Parshat Vayigash 5780 By way of background, Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, had two consecutive baffling dreams, which even his wise men could not satisfactorily interpret. Pharaoh’s butler then recalled having two years earlier been in prison with Yosef, who…
Chanukah 5780
Chanukah תש"פ We celebrate the eight-day Chanukah holiday by lighting an eight-branch Menorah, each branch representing one night of the holiday. By daily adding another candle each night, we acknowledge the miracle of the Temple Menorah’s lights that burned continuously…
Parshat Vayeshev 5780
Parshat Vayeshev 5780 This week’s Torah portion relates the events leading up to Yosef becoming the Viceroy of Egypt. HaShem told Avraham Avinu in the "ברית בין הבתרים", The Covenant Between The Parts, that his children would be slaves in…
Parshat Vayishlach 5780
Parshat Vayishlach Our world has come to realize that we most successfully educate our children by example, not speeches. We can instruct our children from morning till night not to gamble, but if we ourselves gamble, it will be futile.…
Partshat Vayeitzei 5780
Vayetzei תש"פ In every Amidah (also called the ‘Shemoneh Esrei’, the extended silent devotion that constitutes the core of our daily prayers), we address HaShem as the “G-d and the G-d of our fathers Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov.” How are…
Parshat Toldot 5780
Parshat Toldot תש"פ Yitzchak and Rivkah had been married for over twenty years and had not been blessed with children. They prayed fervently for children, Yitzchak in one corner and Rivkah in the other. HaShem listened to Yitzchak’s prayers,…
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