Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Vayishlah NOW DINAH, THE DAUGHTER OF LEAH, WHOM SHE HAD BORNE TO JACOB, WENT OUT TO VISIT THE DAUGHTERS OF THE LAND. (Bereishit 34:1) Who is Responsible: Dinah, Leah, Jacob or Shekhem son of Hamor? Now Dinah, the daughter of Leah, went out – Read this in the light of what Scripture says: All treasures of the king's daughter's are kept within. (Tehillim 45:14). Rabbi Tossi said: When the woman conceals herself in the...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Vayetze This edition is dedicated to the memory of Avraham Nuriel, z"l JACOB KEPT LABAN THE ARAMEAN IN THE DARK, NOT TELLING HIM THAT HE WAS FLEEING, AND FLED WITH ALL THAT HE HAD. SOON HE WAS ACROSS THE EUPHRATES AND HEADING TOWARD THE HILL COUNTRY OF GILEAD. (Bereishit 31:20-1) From What or Whom is it Possible or Desirable to Flee, and to Where? And fled – Throughout the Torah, the word...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Toldot SO JACOB DREW CLOSE TO HIS FATHER ISAAC, WHO FELT HIM AND WONDERED. "THE VOICE IS THE VOICE OF JACOB, YET THE HANDS ARE THE HANDS OF ESAU. (Bereishit 27:22) The voice is the voice of Jacob – No prayer is ever effective without the participation of Jacob's offspring. Yet the hands are the hands of Esau – No war is ever won without the participation of Esau's offspring in it. Caution...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Chaye Sara "HERE I STAND BY THE SPRING AS THE DAUGHTERS OF THE TOWNSMEN COME OUT TO DRAW WATER; LET THE MAIDEN TO WHOM I SAY, 'PLEASE, LOWER YOUR JAR THAT I MAY DRINK,' AND WHO REPLIES, 'DRINK, AND I WILL ALSO WATER YOUR CAMELS'- LET HER BE THE ONE WHOM YOU HAVE DECREED FOR YOUR SERVANT ISAAC. THEREBY SHALL I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE DEALT GRACIOUSLY WITH MY MASTER."… THE SERVANT RAN TOWARD HER...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Vaera HE ANNIHILATED THOSE CITIES AND THE ENTIRE PLAIN, AND ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE CITIES AND THE VEGETATION OF THE GROUND. LOT'S WIFE LOOKED BACK, AND SHE THEREUPON TURNED INTO A PILLAR OF SALT. NEXT MORNING, ABRAHAM HURRIED TO THE PLACE WHERE HE HAD STOOD BEFORE THE LORD, AND HE LOOKED DOWN TOWARD SODOM AND GOMORRAH AND ALL THE LAND OF THE PLAIN, AND HE SAW THE SMOKE OF THE LAND RISING LIKE THE...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Lech-Lecha AS FOR ISHMAEL, I HAVE HEEDED YOU. I HEREBY BLESS HIM. I WILL MAKE HIM FERTILE AND EXCEEDINGLY NUMEROUS. HE SHALL B THE FATHER OF TWELVE CHIEFTAINS, AND I WILL MAKE OF HIM A GREAT NATION. (Bereishit 17:20) Promises Fulfilled by a Certain Time, and Promises which are Dependent upon Fulfillment of the Covenant We see that the fulfillment of this promise to them was delayed for 2,333 years (according to the...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Noah AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY THE WATERS OF THE FLOOD CAME UPON THE EARTH. IN THE SIXTH HUNDREDTH YEAR OF NOAH'S LIFE, IN THE SECOND MONTH, ON THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF THE MONTH, ON THAT DAY, ALL THE FOUNTAINS OF THE DEEP BURST APART, AND THE FLOODGATES OF THE SKY BROKE OPEN. THE RAIN FELL ON THE EARTH FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS. (Bereishit 7:10-12) BY THESE THINGS HE CONTROLS PEOPLES; HE GIVES...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Bereishit THEN THE LORD GOD SAID TO THE SERPENT, "BECAUSE YOU DID THIS, MORE CURSED SHALL YOU BE THAN ALL THE CATTLE AND ALL THE WILD BEASTS: ON YOUR BELLY SHALL YOU CRAWL AND DIRT SHALL YOU EAT ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE. (Bereishit 3:14)) The Serpent's Curse Rabbi Asi and Rabbi Hoshiya said in the name of Rabbi Aha: God told him: I made you king over domesticated animals and wild...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Sukkot WHAT IS OCCURRING OCCURRED LONG SINCE, AND WHAT IS TO OCCUR OCCURRED LONG SINCE: AND GOD SEEKS THE PURSUED. (Kohelet 3:15) In connection with that which is written, and God seeks the pursued – Rabbi Huna said in the name of Rabbi Yosef: In the future, God will exact the blood of the pursued from their pursuers: A righteous man pursues a righteous man – and God seeks the pursued, A wicked man pursues...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Yom Kippur AND WRITE AND SIGN, AND COUNT, AND NUMBER, AND REMEMBER ALL THE FORGOTTEN THINGS AND OPEN THE BOOK OF MEMORIES. (From the prayer, Unetanah Tokef) Rabbi said: Which is the right course that a man should choose for himself? That which is an honor to him who does it, and which also brings him honor from mankind. Be heedful of a light precept as of a grave one, for you do not know...