Yosef recognized his brothers, but his brothers didn’t recognize him (Bereishis 42:8). Why they didn’t recognize him is discussed (see Rashi), but what about the

When Yehuda’s third child, שלה, was born, he, and/or the birth, was in כזיב (Bereishis 38:5). There is much discussion about why the Torah includes

Yaakov’s return trip from חרן to חברון was quite eventful. He was chased by his father-in-law, Lavan, who caught up with him at הר הגלעד

Yaakov Avinu is described as a “tent dweller”(Bereishis 25:27), which Rashi tells us refers to the tent of Shem and the tent of Eiver. But

“And he called it שבעה; therefore the name of the city is באר שבע till this very day” (Bereishis 26:33). The implication is that because

Although the bulk of the parsha is about Eliezer finding a wife for Yitzchok, it ends by telling us where the descendants of Yishmael lived,

We know that סדם was on the Jordan Plain (ככר הירדן), so the first step in trying to identify where סדם was is identifying the

Translating Tanach is not easy. Aside from the difficulties expressing nuances when translating anything into a different language, made even harder when translating biblical Hebrew,

The first time Gaza is mentioned in Tanach is in our parsha, as one of the cities on the boundary of the Land of Canaan.

As we start the new weekly parsha cycle, we present the first in a weekly series from Rabbi Dov Kramer on how geography impacts our

Although Shavuos is a biblical holiday, it is never described as “Zman Matan Toraseinu” in the Torah. And there have been some very good suggestions