By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis We have a teaching that everything that happened to our forefathers is a sign to the…
By: Shlomo Katz The Midrash Rabbah comments on the verse (45:28), “Yisrael said, ‘How great! My son Yosef still lives!’”– Yaakov said,…
By: Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky It was the ultimate encounter. Yaakov, the consummate theologian, meets Pharoh, the king of the powerful…
By: Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky Parshas Miketz details the continuing saga of Yoseph and his brothers. Yoseph’s brothers, forced by the…
By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis In this week`s parsha we read the dramatic story of Joseph who is now Viceroy of…
Her path was not a smooth one. In fact, for more than a thousand years after it was written, her…
By: Shlomo Katz Our Parashah opens: “Yaakov settled in the land of his father’s sojournings, in the land of Canaan.…
By: Rabbi Raymond Beyda “…They raised their eyes and they saw, behold! — A caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from…
By: Reuven Chaim Klein In Parashat Vayishlach, Jacob’s family is referred to as a machaneh (Gen. 32:9, 33:8) and bayit (Gen. 35:2), but, of…
By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis From the subtlety of Jacob`s language, we discover the character traits to which we, as Jews,…