By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis To find the proper words on such occasions is never easy, but that was the challenge of Moshe Rabbenu as he...

By Prof. Phyllis Chesler Time is short and the Jews are, as usual, in trouble. What does the Exodus teach us about what to...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis In this parsha, we meet the greatest man who ever walked on planet earth, the man who actually spoke to G-d...

By: Rabbi Shlomo Katz In this week’s parashah we meet Moshe Rabbeinu and learn about his early experiences. We read (2:10-12), “The boy grew up...

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...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis We have a teaching that everything that happened to our forefathers is a sign to the children. So when we study...

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 the strength...

By: Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky It was the ultimate encounter. Yaakov, the consummate theologian, meets Pharoh, the king of the powerful land of Egypt. What could...

By: Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky Parshas Miketz details the continuing saga of Yoseph and his brothers. Yoseph’s brothers, forced by the famine that gripped the land...

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...

Her path was not a smooth one. In fact, for more than a thousand years after it was written, her story was forgotten. By: Sarah...

By: Shlomo Katz Our Parashah opens: “Yaakov settled in the land of his father’s sojournings, in the land of Canaan. These are the chronicles of...

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

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 course, the common Hebrew word for...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis From the subtlety of Jacob`s language, we discover the character traits to which we, as Jews, should aspire–and the converse is...

By: Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky Yaakov’s family faced a tremendous crisis. While passing through the city of Shechem, Dena, their sister was attacked and was violated...