Parashat Beshalach 5786: Faith in the Almighty – The Secret of Redemption: The Main Thing Is Not to Be Afraid at All of the...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin This past Sunday brought a fierce winter storm across much of the U.S. We got hit with a whopper. An Arctic...

By: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb It is a familiar domestic scene, one that we have all experienced. The family is about to leave on a...

Parshas Bo – Reinvigorate Yourself Jewishly By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis At the beginning of the parsha, we are told that one of HaShem`s goals in the...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, a former Chief Rabbi of Israel, is a most inspiring speaker, with a special knack for telling...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis At the beginning of the parsha, we are told that one of HaShem`s goals in the exodus from Egypt was to...

The Warning Embedded in Parshat Vaeira By: Rabbi Leo Dee I keep thinking about Parshat Vaeira as I read the headlines. Vaeira is the moment when...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin This Shabbos, Shabbos Mevorchim, we bless the oncoming month of Shevat. Shevat, spelled Shin-Beis-Tes, is often read as an acronym for...

By: Rabbi Shlomo Katz We read near the beginning of our Parashah that Moshe spoke Hashem’s words to Bnei Yisrael, “but they did not heed...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Fargess nisht dein numen…. Fargess nisht dein numen…. Don’t forget your name…. Don’t forget your name…. I was by my mother’s – Rebbetzin Esther bas...

By: Rabbi Ben Tzion Shafier “And Moshe returned to HASHEM and said, “HASHEM, why have You done evil to this people? Why have You sent...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin In parshas Vayechi, Yaakov faces his end of life. “…It was said to Yosef, behold, your father is sick…” (Bereishis 48:1)...

By: Rabbi Yosef Kalatsky The Special Level of Yaakov, Our Patriarch The Midrash Tanchuma states, “Reb Shimon Bar Yochai said, “Hashem said to the Klal Yisroel...

By: Shlomo Katz The Midrash Rabbah comments on the verse (45:28), “Yisrael said, ‘How great! My son Yosef still lives!’”– Yaakov said, “How great is...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin “Vayigash, and he approached”. The parsha opens with Yehuda pleading to Yosef on behalf of his youngest brother, Binyamin. Picture it. Yosef, Viceroy...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin I opened the door of my over-stuffed freezer, and a large roast came tumbling out, right onto my poor toes. OUCH! No one...