By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Tu B’Shevat, the 15th day of Shevat, is known as Rosh HaShanah L’ilanos, the New Year for Trees. (This year, Tu...

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By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Bnei Yisroel’s dream of leaving Mitzrayim is finally becoming a reality. With HaShem’s yad chazaka, His strong hand, they are able...

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...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Beis Shevat. Yahrtzeit of my dear father, HaRav Meshulem ben HaRav Osher Anshil HaLevi, zt”l. It is now twenty-eight years since my...

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 Sefer Shemos, the making of our nation. Shemos is also known as Sefer HaGeula, the Book of Redemption. Shemos takes us...

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 Pashas Vayechi. The closing of Sefer Bereishis. The end of an era. “Vayikrivu yemei Yisroel lamus, When the end of Yisroel’s (Yaakov)...

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: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Twenty-two years passed since Yosef had last seen his family. Hard years. Years of slavery. Years of imprisonment. Yosef is now...

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 “V’lo zochar sar hamashkim es Yosef, va’yishkocheihu, And the chief wine butler didn’t remember Yosef, and he forgot him” (Bereishis 40:23) The...

By: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb Typically, this week’s Torah portion, Parshat Miketz (Genesis 41:1-44:17), is read during Chanukah. This year is an exception. This Shabbat,...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Who doesn’t love Chanukah? Family gathering around the menorah, basking in its light, singing together the age-old melodies of Haneiros Hallalu and...

By: Rabbi Raymond Beyda “…They raised their eyes and they saw, behold! — A caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, their camels bearing spices,...