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...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Vayigash ALL THE SOULS COMING TO EGYPT WITH JACOB, THOSE DESCENDED FROM HIM, EXCLUDING THE WIVES OF JACOB'S SONS, ALL THE SOULS WERE SIXTY SIX. AND JOSEPH'S SONS, WHO WERE BORN TO HIM IN EGYPT, TWO SOULS; ALL THE SOULS OF THE HOUSE OF JACOB WHO CAME TO EGYPT WERE SEVENTY. (Bereishit 46:26-7) Abba Halifa Keruya asked R. Hiyyz bar Abba: The sum you find is seventy, but individuals you find...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Miketz THE ONE OPENED HIS SACK TO GIVE FODDER TO HIS DONKEY AT THE LODGING PLACE, AND HE SAW HIS MONEY THERE IT WAS, IN THE MOUTH OF HIS SACK. (Bereishit 42:27) Simon and Levi are brothers – but are they not all brothers? Rather: "brothers in scheming" – they devised a scheme against Shechem and destroyed it, for it says: And two sons of Jacob, Simon and Levi took. And they schemed against...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Vayeshev FOR THE SOURCE OF LIFE IS WITH YOU; IN YOUR LIGHT WE WILL SEE LIGHT. (Psalms 36:10) You shall charge the Israelites that they shall take to you – Israel said: Master of the Universe! In your light we see light, yet you command us to light lamps before you!? Rabbi Yitzhak said a house full of lanterns. The master of the house tells his servant,...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Vayishlah AND ESAU RAN TOWARD HIM AND EMBRACED HIM, AND HE FELL ON HIS NECK AND KISSED HIM, AND THEY WEPT. AND HE LIFTED HIS EYES AND SAW THE WOMEN AND THE CHILDREN, AND HE SAID, "WHO ARE THESE TO YOU?" AND HE SAID, "THE CHILDREN WITH WHOM GOD HAS FAVORED YOUR SERVANT." AND THE MAIDSERVANTS AND THEIR CHILDREN DREW NEAR AND PROSTRATED THEMSELVES. AND LEAH AND HER CHILDREN DREW NEAR AND PROSTRATED THEMSELVES, AND...