Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Ki Tissa AND THE LORD SAID TO MOSES: "GO, DESCEND, FOR YOUR PEOPLE THAT YOU HAVE BROUGHT UP FROM THE LAND OF EGYPT HAVE ACTED CORRUPTLY. THEY HAVE QUICKLY TURNED AWAY FROM THE PATH THAT I HAVE COMMANDED THEM; THEY HAVE MADE THEMSELVES A MOLTEN CALF! AND THEY HAVE PROSTRATED THEMSELVES BEFORE IT, SLAUGHTERED SACRIFICES TO IT, AND SAID: 'THESE ARE YOUR GODS, O ISRAEL, WHO HAVE BROUGHT YOU UP FROM THE LAND OF EGYPT.'...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Tetzave YOU SHALL MAKE HOLY GARMENTS FOR YOUR BROTHER AARON, FOR HONOR AND GLORY. (Shemot 28:2) When he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom – R. Yossi bar Hanina said: This teaches us that he donned the priestly garments: there (Esther 1) it is written the splendor of the glory of his majesty, and here (Shemot 28) it is written for honor and glory. (Megilla 12a) You shall make holy garments –...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Truma AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD RESTED ON MOUNT SINAI, AND THE CLOUD COVERED IT FOR SIX DAYS, AND HE CALLED TO MOSES ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM WITHIN THE CLOUD. (Shemot 24:16) AND THE CLOUD COVERED THE TENT OF MEETING, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD FILLED THE TABERNACLE. (Shemot 40:34) The secret of the Tabernacle is that the Glory which abode upon Mount Sinai should abide upon it in a...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Mishpatim YOU SHALL NOT ACCEPT A BRIBE, FOR A BRIBE WILL BLIND THE CLEAR SIGHTED AND CORRUPT WORDS THAT ARE RIGHT. (Shemot 23:8) Rabbi Abahu said: Come and see how blinded are those who receive bribes. A man whose eyes bother him gives money to a physician – he may or may not be cured. These take a penny's worth and blind their eyes, for it is said: a bribe will blind...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Yitro MOSES TOLD HIS FATHER IN LAW ALL THAT THE LORD HAD DONE TO PHARAOH AND TO THE EGYPTIANS ON ACCOUNT OF ISRAEL, ALL THE HARDSHIPS THAT HAD BEFALLEN THEM ON THE WAY, AND THE LORD HAD SAVED THEM. JETHRO WAS HAPPY ABOUT ALL THE GOOD THAT THE LORD HAD DONE FOR ISRAEL, THAT HE HAD RESCUED THEM FROM THE HANDS OF THE EGYPTIANS. (Shemot 18:8-9) Was Jethro was Sorry,...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Beshalach JOSHUA DID AS MOSES HAD TOLD HIM, TO FIGHT AGAINST AMALEK; AND MOSES, AARON, AND HUR ASCENDED TO THE TOP OF THE HILL. IT CAME TO PASS THAT WHEN MOSES WOULD RAISE HIS HAND, ISRAEL WOULD PREVAIL, AND WHEN HE WOULD LAY DOWN HIS HAND, AMALEK WOULD PREVAIL. NOW MOSES' HANDS WERE HEAVY; SO THEY TOOK A STONE AND PLACED IT UNDER HIM, AND HE SAT ON IT. AARON AND HUR SUPPORTED HIS HANDS,...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Bo THE LORD SAID TO MOSES, "STRETCH FORTH YOUR HAND TOWARD THE HEAVENS, AND THERE WILL BE DARKNESS OVER THE LAND OF EGYPT, AND THE DARKNESS WILL BECOME DARKER." SO MOSES STRETCHED FORTH HIS HAND TOWARD THE HEAVENS, AND THERE WAS THICK DARKNESS OVER THE ENTIRE LAND OF EGYPT FOR THREE DAYS. THEY DID NOT SEE EACH OTHER, AND NO ONE ROSE FROM HIS PLACE FOR THREE DAYS, BUT FOR ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Vaera …AND HE RAISED THE STAFF AND STRUCK THE WATER THAT WAS IN THE NILE BEFORE THE EYES OF PHARAOH AND BEFORE THE EYES OF HIS SERVANTS, AND ALL THE WATER THAT WAS IN THE NILE TURNED TO BLOOD. AND THE FISH THAT WERE IN THE NILE DIED, AND THE NILE BECAME PUTRID; THE EGYPTIANS COULD NOT DRINK WATER FROM THE NILE, AND THERE WAS BLOOD THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE LAND OF EGYPT. (Shemot 7:20-21) ...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Shemot MOSES WAS PASTURING THE FLOCKS OF JETHRO, HIS FATHER IN LAW, THE CHIEF OF MIDIAN, AND HE LED THE FLOCKS AFTER THE FREE PASTURELAND, AND HE CAME TO THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD, TO HOREB. AN ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED TO HIM IN A FLAME OF FIRE FROM WITHIN THE THORN BUSH, AND BEHOLD, THE THORN BUSH WAS BURNING WITH FIRE, BUT THE THORN BUSH WAS NOT BEING CONSUMED. SO MOSES SAID, "LET ME...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Vayechi SO JOSEPH WENT UP TO BURY HIS FATHER, AND ALL PHARAOH'S SERVANTS, THE ELDERS OF HIS HOUSE, AND ALL THE ELDERS OF THE LAND OF EGYPT WENT UP WITH HIM. (Bereishit 50:7) and all Pharaoh's servants went up with him – besides Joseph, all of Egypt's populace were called Pharaoh's servants. (Ibn Ezra Bereishit 50:7) Rabbi Brekhiah said: Loving kindness is found in the Torah, in its beginning, its middle and its...