At first glance, it seems like the holiday least appropriate for the situation in which we find ourselves—totally incongruent with our mood and state of
Like most everyone else, things changed dramatically for me after Oct. 7. However, for me the shift wasn’t simply on a personal or emotional level,
Author’s Note: As we wind down Sefer Bereishit, this week will be the final installment of Parenting from the Parsha. It’s been two years since
Many of us have wonderfully fond memories of our grandparents—visiting their homes and rummaging through their old closets, receiving gifts and playing games with them,
Yosef, the main character in these parshiyot, is described by Chazal as “Yosef Hatzaddik.” The obvious question that arises is why? Yosef had many great
Our parsha opens with the challenging dynamics between Yosef and his siblings. The Torah relates Yaakov’s favoritism of Yosef, which aroused hatred by the brothers
In Sefer Yirmiyahu, Chapter 31, Yirmiyahu details the scene in heaven as Am Yisrael leave Eretz Yisrael following the second Beit Hamikdash’s destruction. The pesukim
Parshat Toldot introduces a new phase in Sefer Bereishit and in the lives of our avot and imahot. Beginning with our parsha, we are witness
One of the main storylines in Parshat Chayei Sarah is Eliezer’s journey to find a wife for Yitzchak. Incredibly, the Torah dedicates close to 70
The first few parshiyot of Sefer Bereishit are so action-packed, that there are sections in each parsha that we tend to read through quickly, almost
We are all familiar with the basic narrative at the beginning of parshat Bereishit—God created the world in six days and, on the seventh day,
For almost two months, beginning on Rosh Chodesh Elul and continuing through the Yamim Noraim and Sukkot, we add the paragraph of L’Dovid Hashem Ori
