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Parashat Vaera

Parasha Thoughts By Rabbi Shlomo Zargari Shalom, Pharaoh was known to be an intellectual thinker. You don’t just become the king of the mightiest country of the world at the time, you better deserve it. The country went through the plagues: Blood, Frogs, Lice, Wild Animals and Pestilence. The plagues […]

Parashat Shemot

Parasha Thoughts By Rabbi Shemuel Akhamzadeh רבות מחשבות בלב איש ועצת השם היא תקום …וילך איש מבית לוי ויקח את בת לוי In this week’s Parasha, we hear of Pharaoh’s decree to throw every newborn boy into the Nile River. The Midrash tells us Amram the father of Moshe decided […]

Parashat Vayechi

Parasha Thoughts By Rabbi Aviad Boukris There is a story told about an important man who had already reached his seventies. He was a known figure who was a source of great influence and pride to his family and his community. Once, one of his sons brought his children to […]

Parashat Vayigash

Parasha Thoughts By Rabbi David Cohen But his brothers could not answer him because they were left disconcerted before him. (45:3) Chazal have used the brothers’ reaction to Yosef’s revelation – their overriding fear and trepidation – to describe in some manner what we are all destined to face on […]

Chanukah

Parasha Thoughts By Rabbi Yosef Shemtov We might think we commemorate Chanukah because of the miracle of the oil. After the war between Greece and the Jewish partisans and after Jerusalem was liberated, a small jar of uncontaminated oil was found that should only have lasted for one night but […]