Vayishlach: Finally Becoming Israel

As Yaakov returns back home to his land, he and his family are met with new challenges that ultimately transform them into the nation of Israel.

TORAH SHORTS: Parshat Vayishlach: Your Money or Your Soul

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming. -Matthew Arnold

Remember The Sons Of Edom

Esav is the last of all the nations to come into the world. He is a pretender. He uses his strength and deception to humiliate and to conquer others, but in the end he is just a bully.

Jealousy Rots – Envy Can Redeem

She said, were she not more righteous than me, she wouldn’t be privileged to have so many children.

Parshas Vayishlach: The Principle that Saved Yaakov’s Life    

Every physical action affects the spiritual realm, creating cosmic ripple effects; The same is true of the physical world. Every action creates a corresponding reaction in the spiritual world. In essence, our physical world is like an upside-down puppet show

It’s Never Too Late To Find Out Who You Are

After 80 years, I finally know who I am and who my family members are, he said yesterday when he met his cousin in the city of Modi'in.

Vayetzei: Yaakov’s Struggle To Become Israel

Before becoming Israel, Yaakov had to first spend several years in exile learning to be more like Esav.

The Tapestry Of History

It was the enmity of the brothers to Yosef and their selling him as a slave, that was the primary cause for their descent to Egypt and being forced into slavery by the cruel Pharaoh.

The Many Gates Of Tears

Such is the power of tears that it has the ability to transform worlds and to create a new essence of blessing and abundance, no matter who is crying.

TORAH SHORTS: Powerful Vows: Parshat Vayetze

A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve. -Mahatma Gandhi

Are You an ‘EARTH ANGEL’?

When we come through for others, when we ask how we can help, when we make the difference for them, we bring a piece of heaven down here to earth. Through our actions we build an actual stairway to heaven. 

To Serve And To Protect

Just as Yaakov tended the sheep of Lavan, guiding and guarding them so he could win the hand of Rachel, so Hashem protects his offspring until the end of time.

A Tumultuous Pregnancy

Why would Yaakov want to leave the environment of the womb, a place where a celestial angel teaches the fetus all of the Torah?

Toldot: The Prophetic Destiny Of Rivka’s Twins

How do the character traits of Esav and Yaakov find expression in the rival civilizations they produced?

Torah Shorts: Cruel Cynics: Parshat Toldot

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. -Henry Ward Beecher

How Do We Know That He Loves Us?

Abarbanel describes some of the spiritual depths to which the inhabitants of Yerushalayim had sunk at this twilight of prophecy. Those who should have been the leaders, the best among us, had become the worst.

Wait Just A Minute

The young man said, ‘I don’t want to listen to any mussar; it doesn’t interest me. Just leave me alone!’

Parshas Toldos: The Cosmic Battle Between Yaakov and Esav 

The physical is not an end in itself- it is meant to serve as a vehicle for transcendent, spiritual, conscious living. This is the battle we face on a daily basis, a battle of perception.

As Modest As She Was Wise

Of Sarah we know that her beauty, as legendary as it was, was only one small fragment of her greatness.

The Question Rabbi Sacks Was Asked The Most

Rabbi Sacks once said that he lectured hundreds of times a year, met thousands of people every month, and spoke constantly with people of every type throughout the world. Which question, do you suppose, was he asked most often?

How Did Sarah Leave This World?

Perhaps even more perplexing is the fact that we are taught that the only way to earn entry into the rarified grave of the Meoras HaMachpelah is to be one of the elite few who died by misa b’nashika, through the kiss of Hashem.

Shabbat Chayei Sarah and Jewish memory

Long before Jerusalem was mentioned in the biblical text, Hebron was embedded as a site of pilgrimage for sacred memory.

Unconditional Chesed

Only a woman whose being was suffused with the characteristic of chesed would be a suitable wife for Yitzchak, and that was not a quality that could be discerned with a miracle.

The Mysterious Tenth Test

Avraham was burying his wife, facing the death of his life’s partner, there was a deeper layer here. He was also planting the seeds for their eternal connection.

Chayei Sara: Perfection of the Living Sacrifice

Following her death, Sarah's powerful legacy continued to influence Avraham and play a major role in their family's development into a nation.

The Message Of Tefillin – For Old And Young

When a Jew of any age or condition begins his day with tefillin, he takes the two most important forces in life and points them in the right direction.

Avraham and Sarah’s ‘Debate’

If we are expected to pray for someone and we neglect to do so, we are robbing them of something that is rightfully theirs.

Creating Profiles

When judging others, Avraham Avinu did not compare the status of the tzaddik to himself. Rather, he expanded the definition of a tzaddik.

Torah Shorts: Parshat Vayera: Naturally Beyond Nature

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. -Francis Bacon

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