Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Truma YOU SHOULD MAKE A MENORAH OF PURE GOLD; THE MENORAH SHALL BE MADE OF HAMMERED WORK; ITS BASE AND IS SHAFT, ITS CUPS, CALAYXES, AND PETALS SHALL BE OF ONE PIECE. SIX BRANCHES SHALL ISSUE FROM ITS SIDES; THREE BRANCHES FROM ONE OF ITS SIDES AND THREE BRANCHES FROM ITS OTHER SIDE. (Shemot 25:31-2) The Golden Menorah – was there Significance to its Details? Thereupon a menorah was placed in front of...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Mishpatim WHEN YOU SEE THE ASS OF YOUR ENEMY LYING UNDER ITS BURDEN AND WOULD REFRAIN FROM RAISING IT, YOU MUST NEVERTHELESS RAISE IT WITH HIM. (Shemot 23:5) When you meet, when you see – Outside the law-court you must save and help the possessions of even your enemy and hater… Even if the owner has done you real harm, you should still save him from the loss. But an ass lying under...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Yitro NEXT DAY, MOSES SAT AS MAGISTRATE AMONG THE PEOPLE, WHILE THE PEOPLE STOOD ABOUT MOSES FROM MORNING UNTIL EVENING. BUT WHEN MOSES' FATHER-IN-LAW SAW HOW MUCH HE HAD TO DO FOR THE PEOPLE, HE SAID, "WHAT IS THIS THING THAT YOU ARE DOING TO THE PEOPLE? WHY DO YOU SIT ALONE, WHILE ALL THE PEOPLE STAND ABOUT YOU FROM MORNING UNTIL EVENING? (Shemot 18:13-14) From morning until evening – Is it really...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Bo SO MOSES AND AARON WERE BROUGHT BACK TO PHARAOH AND HE SAID TO THEM, "GO AND WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD! WHO ARE THE ONES TO GO?" MOSES REPLIED, "WE WILL ALL GO, YOUNG AND OLD: WE WILL GO WITH OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS, OUR FLOCKS AND HERDS; FOR WE MUST OBSERVE THE LORD'S FESTIVAL." BUT HE SAID TO THEM, "THE LORD BE WITH YOU THE SAME AS I MEAN TO LET YOUR CHILDREN...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Beshalach THEY CAME TO MARAH, BUT THEY COULD NOT DRINK THE WATER OF MARAH BECAUSE IT WAS BITTER; THAT IS WHY IT WAS NAMED MARAH. AND THE PEOPLE GRUMBLED AGAINST MOSES, SAYING, "WHAT SHALL WE DRINK?" SO HE CRIED OUT TO THE LORD, AND THE LORD SHOWED HIM A PIECE OF WOOD; HE THREW IT INTO THE WATER AND THE WATER BECAME SWEET. THERE HE MADE FOR THEM A FIXED RULE, AND THERE HE PUT...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Shemot WHEN HE WENT OUT THE NEXT DAY, HE SAW TWO HEBREWS FIGHTING: SO HE SAID TO THE OFFENDER, "WHY DO YOU STRIKE YOUR FELLOW?" HE RETORTED, "WHO MADE YOU CHIEF AND RULER OVER US? DO YOU MEAN TO KILL ME AS YOU KILLED THE EGYPTIAN? MOSES WAS FRIGHTENED AND THOUGHT: THEN THE MATTER IS KNOWN! (Shemot 2:13-14) The Oppressed Must be Saved from his Oppressor without Regard for Nationality Two Hebrews – They...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Vayechi AND WHEN THE TIME APPROACHED FOR JACOB TO DIE, HE SUMMONED HIS SON JOSEPH AND SAID TO HIM, "PLEASE, IF I HAVE FOUND FAVOR IN YOUR EYES, PLACE YOUR HAND UNDER MY THIGH AND TREAT ME WITH KINDNESS AND LOYALTY: PLEASE DO NOT BURY ME IN EGYPT. WHEN I LIE DOWN WITH MY FATHERS, TAKE ME UP FROM EGYPT AND BURY ME IN THEIR BURIAL-PLACE." HE REPLIED, "I WILL DO AS YOU HAVE SPOKEN."...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Vayigash JOSEPH ORDERED HIS CHARIOT AND WENT TO GOSHEN TO MEET HIS FATHER ISRAEL; HE PRESENTED HIMSELF TO HIM AND, EMBRACING HIM AROUND THE NECK, HE WEPT ON HIS NECK A GOOD WHILE. THEN ISRAEL SAID TO JOSEPH, "NOW I CAN DIE, HAVING SEEN FOR MYSELF THAT YOU ARE STILL ALIVE." (Bereishit 46:29-30) Joseph wept, Jacob did not weep. Joseph could still weep, Jacob was finished with weeping, he had wept enough in...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Miketz SO PHARAOH SAID TO JOSEPH, "SINCE GOD HAS MADE ALL THIS KNOWN TO YOU, THERE IS NONE SO DISCERNING AND WISE AS YOU. YOU SHALL BE IN CHARGE OF MY COURT, AND ALL MY PEOPLE SHALL KISS YOUR MOUTH, ONLY WITH RESPECT TO THE THRONE SHALL I BE SUPERIOR TO YOU. PHARAOH FURTHER SAID TO JOSEPH, "SEE, I PUT YOU IN CHARGE OF ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT.". (Bereishit 41:39-41) Rabbi Shimon ben...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Vayeshev NOW ISRAEL LOVED JOSEPH BEST OF ALL HIS SONS, FOR HE WAS THE CHILD OF HIS OLD AGE; AND HE MADE HIM A COAT OF MANY COLORS. (Bereishit 37:3) Discrimination Brings Jealousy, Hatred, and Violence And he made him a coat of many colors – Resh Lakish said in the name of R. Elazar ben Azaryah: A person should not discriminate between his children, since the coat of many colors which our...