By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin This week’s parsha, Bo, tells us of the mitzva of V’higadeta l’vincha, and you shall tell your son…” (Shemos 13:8). The...

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 Baruch Atah HaShem….. matir assurim. Blessed are you HaShem…. Who releases captives. One of the brachos we say every morning during Shacharis. Following the...

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 “V’eileh Shemos Bnei Yisroel, These are the names of Bnei Yisroel.” (Shemos 1:1) There is a well-known Midrash which teaches that the...

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 End of life plans. Wills, last requests. Not things that are pleasant to think about. Decisions we tend to delay and...

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...

Parshas Vayigash – We Can’t Forget By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin This Shabbos, Parshas Vayigash, we read of the emotional moment when Yosef revealed his true identity...

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 I was Chanukah gift shopping for my grandchildren. A friend approached me, and asked if I was experiencing what she was going...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis In this week`s parsha we read the dramatic story of Joseph who is now Viceroy of Egypt meeting his brethren after...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin On recent trips to Eretz Yisroel, I noticed a change in the simple greeting of boker tov, good morning. Instead of...

By: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb It was in the second or third grade that I began to study Chumash. I remember beginning at the beginning,...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Time to go home. After twenty long years in the house of Lavan, Yaakov was finally able to return home. While...