The Five Dollar Millionaire 
Parshat Vayishlach 5783

He cut a dashing figure when he entered any room, a tall regal Englishman dressed in impeccably tailored thousand dollar Chester Barrie suits worn over smart Turnbull & Asser shirts and ties, a slight salt and pepper beard barely hiding…

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Parshat Vayishlach 5783

Parshat Vayishlach 5783

Parshat Vayishlach תשפ"ג The Ramban prefaces his commentary to the second book of the Torah, Shemot, by writing.  השלים הכתוב ספר בראשית שהוא ספר היצירה בחדוש העולם ויצירת כל נוצר, ובמקרי האבות כולם שהם כעין יצירה לזרעם, מפני שכל מקריהם ציורי דברים לרמוז…

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Parshat Vayishlach 5781

Parshat Vayishlach תשפב 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.…

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Awww, it was sooooo good!
Parsht Vayishlach

The fifteen passenger van was dented, rusted, and filled with benches covered with industrial strength vinyl. For four years that canary yellow van conveyed me to school, about twenty minutes from my house, and deposited me back home again in…

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