By Rabbi Shlomo Zargari: Shalom, at the end of our parasha, we have the episode of the escape of Yaakv Avinu from Haran and Lavan. After using Yaakov and tricking him on everything from work to marriage, he changed his wages 100 times just to leave him penniless and took […]
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By Rabbi Yosef Shemtov: We see in this week’s Torah portion that Rivka was barren and was not able to have children. The pasuk says that Yitzhak prayed to Hashem by the side of his wife Rivka, meaning both of them prayed constantly. The pasuk then says Hashem accepted Yitzhak’s […]
By Rabbi David Cohen: I give the price of the field, (take) accept it from me . (23:13) The Talmud in Kiddushin 2a asks, “From where do we know that ‘money’ is a valid method of kiddushin?” “We derive kichah/kichah misdei Efron.” (Through the use of a gezeirah shavah, one […]
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 […]
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 […]