By Rabbi Yosef Shemtov: In this week’s Torah portion, HaShem tells Moshe “when you go to Pharaoh to ask him to let the Jews go out of Egypt, he will ask you to perform signs to give him proof of Hashem. Then you shall tell Aharon to throw his stick […]
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By Rabbi David Cohen: When Hashem first appeared to Moshe and assigned him the task of leading Bnei Yisrael out of Egypt, Moshe initially refused. One of the reasons he gave for his refusal is that he suffered from a speech impediment, which compromised his ability to effectively confront Pharaoh. […]
By Rabbi Aharon Seleh: In this week’s Parsha, the question is asked why do we bless our children to be like Ephraim and Menashe specifically? Why not like the other tribes or like our forefathers? The Sefer Oznaim La’Torah answers Yakov Avinu foresaw our days in Golut, where the nations […]
By Rabbi Shlomo Zargari: וַיִּקְח֣וּ ×Ö¶×ªÖ¾×žÖ´×§Ö°× Öµ×™×”Ö¶Ö—× ×•Ö°×ֶת־רְכוּש×Ö¸×Ö™ ×ֲש×ֶ֤ר רָֽכְש×וּ֙ בְּ×ֶ֣רֶץ ×›Ö¼Ö°× Ö·Ö”×¢Ö·×Ÿ וַיָּבֹ֖×וּ מִצְרָ֑יְמָה יַעֲקֹ֖ב וְכָל־זַרְע֥וֹ ×ִתּֽוֹ (Bereshit 45,6) The pasuk teaches us that Yaakov Avinu and his descendants went to Egypt. The Midrash teaches us that as long as any of the people who came to Egypt were alive, the […]
By Rabbi Yosef Shemtov: Why do we celebrate Chanukah? Israel was captured by the Greeks around 200 years before the destruction of the second temple. The Greeks were not like other nations who killed Jews, but they were very interested in killing our religion. They started making decrees that Jews […]