After presenting the intense bracha and klala of last week’s sedra, of the threat of eternal exile if we stray from the mitzvot, Moshe Rabeinu speaks of the final teshuva that will end the exile: וְשַׁבְתָּ עַד-ה’ אֱלֹקֶיךָ, וְשָׁמַעְתָּ בְקֹלוֹ, And you shall return unto Hashem your G-d, and you shall listen to His voice (דברים ל:ב) Next, Moshe tells Am Yisrael of the result of […]
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One of the oldest and most widely accepted traditions in the Jewish world is to sit down once (or twice) every year and do a brief review of Jewish history leading up to our redemption from Egypt, in commemoration of the miracles involved in that גאולה. However, to those who are well versed in the […]
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(ואלה שמות בני ישראל” (א’:א” This week’s פרשה, and ספר שמות, open several generations after the end of the previous one, and tells us of the terrible transformation in the Jewish people’s standing in Egypt- having gone from a relatively successful and separate family within a foreign land to being enslaved by their host country. […]
For Printer-Friendly Version, Click Here This week’s d’var torah is dedicated in commemoration of the recent yahrtzeit of my great-grandmother Henrietta Brueckheimer, רחל בת יששכר ע”ה. (וייטב בעיני פרעה ובעיני עבדיו” (מ”ה:ט”ז” At the beginning of this week’s פרשה, after יהודה’s climactic confrontation with יוסף, Yosef finally reveals his identity to his brothers, and the […]
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