There are Parshas in the Torah where you can spend an entire Partners session developing one central idea, going deeper and deeper, and there are places like the opening of Parshas Vayera, where almost every phrase seems to contain another…
WHAT ABRAHAM SAW The Burning Palace, the Seven Days of Creation, and a Whole New Way of Seeing the World PART 1: WHAT DID ABRAHAM SEE?Imagine two people standing before a magnificent palace. One studies its walls, windows, and towers.…
Anyone would tell you that Todd Sikorsky had a tough life, but usually he would be the first one in line. It is not easy being the father of three rambunctious boys, all of whom were diagnosed with ADHD, and…
The Power of Peace There are two times in this Torah portion when humanity took a wrong turn and faced Divine punishment. The first occupies the bulk of the portion. It speaks of the human race becoming corrupt, particularly in…
In early 2025, a twenty-four-year-old Italian man named Deepak Singh bought a rather unusual Rolex. This was not the kind of Rolex you pick up at the mall because you had a good month and decided your wrist deserved a…
Genesis gives us the first foundations of human life. Each story plants a seed. That seed later grows through individuals, families, nations, and history. The first chapters introduce renewal, freedom, temptation, responsibility, jealousy, exile, and hope. These are not only…
When we think of the Spanish galleons roaming the high seas in the 1500 and 1600, bringing gold and treasure from the colonies back to Spain, and fending off pirates and privateers, we think of massive wooden ships, with multiple…
Parshat Vayechi תשפ"ו I heard this lesson from my Rebbe, Harav Moshe Shapiro זצ"ל , who heard it from his Rebbe, Rav Elyiahu Dessler זצ"ל. Today is Rav Shapiro’s ninth yahrtzeit. This week’s portion, Vayechi, is the last chapter in…
Phil’s best friend in college was Jack. Jack Daniels that is. He would take Jack everywhere with him, in a natty little hip flask that Jack Daniels included in their holiday gift pack during Phil’s freshman year. By junior year,…
Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, had two consecutive baffling dreams, which even his wise men could not satisfactorily interpret.The situation, though, prompted Pharaoh’s butler, who had been in prison two years earlier with Yosef, to recall that Yosef had accurately…