By: Rabbi Benjamin Hecht The story of Rachel’s theft of the terafim, the idols (1)of her father, as reported in Bereishit 31:19,2 is somewhat of...

By: Rabbi Label Lam And he arrived at the place and lodged there because the sun had set, and he took some of the stones of...

By: Rabbi Yosef Kalatsky The Preservation of Free Choice We read at the beginning of the parsha, “And these are the offspring of Yitzchak son of Avraham –...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis In this week`s parsha, we see the power of faith and prayer. G-d promised our Patriarchs and Matriarchs that their descendants...

By: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Zt’l The sedra of Chayei Sarah focuses on two episodes, both narrated at length and in intricate detail. Abraham buys a...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis A careful study of the parsha even highlights the specifics of courtship and marriage and offers the guidance that we so sorely need...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis This week’s parsha imparts to us lessons for life–how we should conduct ourselves in our daily affairs and in our relationships. Interestingly...

By: Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky In what must be one of the greatest transitional scenes in the entire Biblical narrative, this week the Torah transposes us...

By: Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb Most people do not give much thought to their ancestral origins. But some do, and I am one of...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis In this week’s parsha, the history of the Jewish people commences. Until now, in the portions of Genesis and Noah, we...

By: Rabbi Pinchas Winston The Talmud says that Noach was also included in the decree of destruction and would have drowned in the Great Flood...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis There is a famous Midrash based on this week’s parsha that asks, “If there are so many ways through which G-d could have saved Noah,...

By: Rabbi Pinchas Winston In the beginning, God made the Heaven and the Earth. (Bereishis 1:1) The words are so incredibly simple, and yet, of course,...

By: Rabbi Pinchas Winston And this (V’zos) is the blessing which Moshe, the Man of G-d, blessed the Children of Israel before his death. (Devarim...

By: Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky The last verses of the Torah encapsulate a glorious career of leadership of the father of all prophets, Moshe, into a...

By Rabbi Avraham HaCohen Kook The focus of the days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is on teshuvah — return and repentance. We recite the Avinu Malkeinu prayer...