The two episodes in Parashat Noach—the annihilation of the world by the Flood and the destruction of the Tower of Babel—end on a similar theme.
Every year, we read the 10 commandments in parshat Va’etchanan after Tisha B’Av. The first 10 commandments—in parshat Yitro—are not read at the same time
Our parsha contains two juxtaposed mitzvot with seemingly no connection between them: “When you slaughter a peace offering to the Lord, you shall slaughter it
At the end of Parshat Vayechi—which of course is also the end of Sefer Bereishit—Yosef tells his brothers that Egypt is only a temporary stop.
There is a mitzvah of joy on every Yom Tov (see Pesachim 109a and Rambam Hilchot Yom Tov 6:17-18), so why should Rosh Hashanah and
“The Lord said to Avram, ‘Go forth from your native land and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I
Lot was commanded not to look back at the destruction of Sedom and Am Yisrael were also commanded for the future not to return to
Every seven years, in the year following a Shemita year (the sabbatical year, the seventh year of a seven-year agricultural cycle), on the holiday of
