By the ninth plague of darkness, Hashem said to Moshe (10:21-22), “Stretch forth your hand towards the heavens, and there shall be darkness upon the

The Gemara quotes Rebbe Akiva who taught that a person should always be accustomed to say: “Whatever the Merciful One [i.e., Hashem] does, He does

A new king arose over Mitzrayim, who “did not know Yosef.” What’s the intention and significance of the Torah telling us that this Pharaoh did

Shortly before his passing, our parsha states that, “Yaakov called for his sons and said, ‘Assemble yourselves and I will tell you what will befall

From the moment the brothers came face to face with the ruler of Egypt, Yosef—whom they hadn’t yet realized was their very own brother—they experienced

Our parsha begins with, “It happened at the end of two years to the day: And Pharaoh was dreaming…” The two years refers to Yosef’s

Our parsha begins with, “And Yaakov dwelled…” Picking up on the word “dwelled,” Rashi—based on the Midrash—explains that this teaches us that “Yaakov wanted to

Following Yaakov and Eisav’s encounter they part ways, as our parsha states: “Eisav returned on that day on his way towards Seir. But Yaakov journeyed

Under a thick disguise of Eisav’s clothing, with his arms and neck covered in goat skin, Yaakov approaches his father, Yitzchak, to receive the weighty

Our parsha begins with the pasuk: “The years of Sarah’s life were one-hundred years, and twenty years, and seven years; the years of Sarah’s life.”

While it might seem that for Avraham the nisayon (test) of Akeidat Yitzchak was solely the challenge of slaughtering his most beloved, dear and long

“Avraham, our forefather, was tested with 10 trials, and he withstood all of them” (Pirkei Avot, chapter 5), and our parsha begins with the trial