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Parashat Yitro

Parasha Thoughts By Rabbi David Cohen Do not covet your fellow’s house…not anything that belongs to your fellow. (20:14,15) If we were to explore which transgression in the Torah encompasses all others, from which prohibition should one distance himself the most, the responses would vary. Chazal teach us that the […]

Parashat Beshalach

Parasha Thoughts By Rabbi Avraham Moeinzadeh “Mon” is the symbol of providence of the creator over every individual. Although all of Bnei Yisrael were equal in the amount and quality of the Mon they would get, each individual had his own unique experience in finding and consuming it. As we […]

Parashat Bo

Parasha Thoughts By Rabbi Yosef Shemtov There are three makot in In this week’s Torah portion. So far, Egypt was hit with seven makot and everything Moshe warned Pharaoh about had occurred. Moshe Rabeinu starts rebuking Pharaoh by saying, “Until when will you refuse to be humble? Your problem is […]

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 […]