Rabbi Elchanan Samet
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Yaakov prepares extensively to meet with Esav, but there is a great contrast between the fear and trepidation that accompanies the preparations and what...
Rabbi Elchanan Samet
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Every significant move which he makes is motivated by two separate impetuses: a practical motive on one hand and a divine motive on the other. What...
Rabbi Reuven Taragin
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In the context of the story about Yaakov's escape from and return to Canaan, the Torah describes Yaakov's exile. This lesson highlights the links between...
Rabbi Amnon Bazak
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The Torah places tremendous importance on the acquisition of land in Eretz Yisrael. Whenever such a transaction is mentioned; it is described in great...
Rabbi Yehuda Rock
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God shares with Avraham his intentions to destroy Sodom; because he God’s emissary for realizing the entire Divine plan of bringing the world to "bend the...
Rabbi Chanoch Waxman
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Noah is introduced as a wholly righteous man, but ends his life drunk and humiliated. How does such a tragedy occur? A comparative read of the stories of...
Rabbi Elchanan Samet
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Some have claimed that the Torah is to blame for humanity's destructive treatment of nature, and that God's commandments led to ecological disaster. A...
Rabbi Yaakov Medan
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Parashat Vayigash counts Yaakov's sons who descend to Egypt. 69 people are named; why, then, does the Torah state that 70 of Yaakov's descendants went to...
Rabbi Yair Kahn
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This lesson discusses two issues: 1. The significance of the Midian War in light of the detailed description of the loot gathered after the battle; 2. The...
Rabbi Elchanan Samet
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Why does Reuven tell the brother “do not sin against the child” when he was the one to throw him in the pit? A close look at the sale of Yosef shows that...
