Parshat Yitro 5781

Parshat Yitro תשפא Yitro (in English Jethro), the person for whom this week’s portion is named, should have been the very last person in the world to have a portion in the Holy Torah named for him.  Indeed, not only…

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Parshat Beshalach 5781

Parshat Beshalach This Shabbat, parashatבשלח  (Beshalach), is called  שבת שירה  (Shabbat Shira), the Shabbat of the Song, because it contains the song that the Jewish people sang to Hashem in appreciation of their salvation from the pursuing Egyptian army at…

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Parshat Bo 5781

Parshat Bo תשפא This week’s portion, בא – Bo, describes Hashem’s last three plagues brought on the Egyptians and the Jews’ exodus from Egypt. The tenth plague, מכת בכורות, the killing of the first born, was the straw that broke…

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