What's In A Name?
||| Vayeitzei ||| In this week's parashah, Vayeitzei [1], we read about the birth of eleven of Jacob's twelve children. About the first...
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- 16 nov 2020
- 5 min.
Calculating One’s Natural Life Span Plus a Surplus
Toledot In this week’s Torah portion we read about the blessings that our patriarch Isaac gave to his son Jacob. Let’s take a look at the...
- 13 nov 2020
- 5 min.
The Meaning of The Cave "of Machpela"
Chaie Sarah In his search for a place to bury his late wife Sarah, the Torah [1] tells us how Avraham asked the Hittites to sell him "the...
- 6 nov 2020
- 6 min.
How To Deal With Your Existential Void
Texts&Contexts Vayera Among the Rebbe’s analysis of Rashi's commentaries on this week's reading, Vayera [1], we will explore a phenomenon...
- 28 oct 2020
- 4 min.
Avram + Avham = Avraham
Lech Lecha Two of the best known Jewish names are Abraham and Sarah, in fact they are the names of the progenitors of the Jewish people....
- 22 oct 2020
- 8 min.
Understanding the Simple Text is No Simple Task.
Intro; Bereshit I decided that, with G-d's help, this year I want to give expression to my destructive instincts. One of the great...
- 22 oct 2020
- 3 min.
Where Did the Dove get the Olive Leaf From?
In this week’s Bible reading, Noach [1], we read about the dove that Noach sent to see if the flood waters had subsided and he could get...
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