Parsha

Only Yisro went deeper into what this all meant to him. He didn’t just hear – he changed.

Angels don’t anticipate a reward when they do Hashem’s bidding and therefore the mitzvos they perform are absolute and perfect.

These Ten Sayings weren’t about specific commandments, they were foundational ideas for the Jewish people, were said at that momentous event to capture what we were becoming by accepting the Torah. What mattered were Ten Sayings, however many commandments they reflected.

Many don’t realize that standards of Orthodox Jewry here before 1940 were incomparably lower than today.

Moshe was leading them, and I suspect that he knew exactly where to go. The cloud was not a GPS, it was a reminder of the benefit of having our heads in the clouds: The cloud was an invitation to extend their reach, to remind them that each time they

Shabbat Shalom

The Rebbe Rayatz treated everyone with the utmost respect, even doing material favors for many non-observant Jews.

If the great Galanter Rebbe had troubled himself to appear to him, there was no doubt that his decision to remain in the wine business would be to his advantage.

To what extent is a prophet of God allowed to improvise?

“The Torah, though, is not just telling us about Pharaoh; it’s also telling us about ourselves. In every one of us, a little Pharaoh is hiding who knows exactly what needs to be done but doesn’t do it.

Pity Netanyahu and Gantz weren’t “tough” like Moshe and Aaron, telling Trump, lay off our land, and watch us apply sovereignty to all of it, in front of the eyes of the whole world. And, you’re going to recognize it. There’s no such thing as “Palestinians,” and there will never be a “Palestinian State.”

Less than five years earlier, World War II had ended, which consumed a third of world Jewry, including most Torah-observant Jews. Almost all great Torah centers were destroyed.

One Minchah recited properly can change everything for the better.

Only one-fifth of the Jews left Egypt during the Exodus. Every Jew who left Egypt all presumably knew one or many relatives and friends who had not gotten out.

Among Custer's character flaws was his inability to look inward. When a problem arose he blamed others.

From the Rebbe’s absolute devotion to his father-in-law, chassidim have learned what the measure of their own devotion – what chassidim call hiskashrus – to their Rebbe should be.

"Moshe's life is inspiring and reassuring to children with learning disabilities and to their parents

Their assumption was predicated on the theory that Hashem operates based on middas hadin.

Though they share parents and ancestors, once the two lines diverge, the Torah tells us exclusively about Aharon’s descendants

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps. -David Lloyd George

We do not expect those elected to be Moshe Rabbeinu. Still, the parshi’ot that will accompany the election campaign in the weeks ahead should remind us of how, ideally, those in leadership roles should conduct themselves.

Was R’ Simcha Bunim justified in not bringing Moshiach because of the distress of one individual?

We don’t seek out faults in people to tell them off, but we should always look for ways to help set people on the right path while we ourselves serve as shining personal examples.

There are times when wrongdoing around us needs to be challenged, opposed, and resisted, and there are times when the wiser reaction is to hunker down and let it pass.

The greatest feelings of accomplishment result from when one invests the most effort in its attainment.

The fire of truth burned brightly before Esav, but he was headstrong.

Yaakov’s service of G-d, at his high spiritual level, required him to be buried with his father Yitzchak and grandfather Avraham in Me’aras HaMachpeilah, a place of openly revealed holiness.

Genesis is not a hymn to the virtue of families. It is a candid, honest, fully worked-through account of what it is to confront some of the main problems within families, even the best.

It’s difficult to describe an event of this magnitude in words. But I’ll share a few highlights...

Ya’akov’s mistake instructs us to understand that even if something appears to be good, that does not mean there isn’t a different way that might be even better