By Rabbi Aharon Seleh: In this week’s parsha, Hashem got upset at Sarah for not believing she would have a child. The Ohr Yechezkel asks: What was the issue? She was told by some Arabs that she would have a child. Why was she supposed to believe them? She had […]
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By Rabbi Shlomo Zargari: Shalom, in our parasha, parashat לך לך, we see Avraham Avinu going to war against the mightiest armies of the time to save his nephew Lot. וַיָּ֕שֶ×ב ×ֵ֖ת ×›Ö¸Ö¼×œÖ¾×”Ö¸×¨Ö°×›Ö»Ö‘×©× ×•Ö°×’Ö·×Ö© ×ֶת־ל֨וֹט ×ָחִ֤יו וּרְכֻש×וֹ֙ הֵשִ×֔יב ×•Ö°×’Ö·Ö¥× ×Ö¶×ªÖ¾×”Ö·× Ö¸Ö¼×©Ö´×Ö–×™× ×•Ö°×ֶת־הָעָֽ×׃ â¦He brought back all the possessions; he also brought […]
By Rabbi Yosef Shemtov: In this week’s Torah portion, parshat Noach, Hashem destroyed the entire world by bringing a flood. Not only human beings perished; all the animals and plants also died. The midrash says even the order of the planets and the sun changed in their orbit because there […]
By Rabbi David Cohen: In several places in our parshah, Rashi sees discontinuity in the process of Creation. Some things begin, pause, and are continued later. The waters that were created on the first day were congealed and separated by the rakia/firmament on the second. The luminaries, he tells us, […]
By Rabbi Aharon Seleh: On Sukkot, there was a special mitzvah of drawing water and pouring it on the mizbe’ach. This was accompanied with an intense Simcha. So much so, that the Gemara says if one never experienced it, one never saw real Simcha in their life. Harav Yitzhak Yosef […]