Parashat Miketz | Light Unto Darkness
The Pharaoh has a dream, “from the Nile seven cows came up, fine-looking and fat; and they grazed in the marsh grass. Then behold, seven...


Parashat Vayeshev | From Silence to Action
“So they took Joseph’s tunic, and slaughtered a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood; and they sent the multicolored tunic and...


Parashat Vayishlach | How to Plan for the Unexpected
In Sefer HaAgadah by Bialik and Ravnitski we find a passage from a midrash of the Lekah Tov[1] about this week’s reading from the Torah....


Parashat VaYetze | Laying Stones of Promise and Unity
In this week’s portion of the Torah we read, among others, the fantastic story about Jacob’s dream. This is what we read, “Then Jacob...


Parashat Toldot | On Respectable and Open Discourse
“…Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines… When the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, ‘She is my sister,’...


Parashat Chayey Sarah | On Leadership, Loss, and Transition
This week we read the Torah portion Chayey Sarah. At the beginning of the read we have to deal with the death of Sarah and the search for...


Parashat VaYera | The Challenges of Making Decisions
Often do I hear the saying that “everything has to be done…” usually to achieve one goal or another that is deemed by the person saying...


Ekev - Weekly Torah Portion
For seven consecutive Saturdays after the 9th day of the month of Av we get to read some of the most comforting portions of prophecy of...


Va'etchanan - Weekly Torah Portion
On this 15th day of the month of Av, my wife and I celebrate our wedding anniversary for the 39th time. We celebrated again with our...


Devarim - Weekly Torah Portion
This Shabbat, the Shabbat prior to the fast of the 9th of Av, also know as Shabbat Hazon (vision), we begin the reading that last of the...

