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by Ariel Bar Tzadok
I am going to speak here in generalities in order to more easily communicate my point. Please do not allow yourselves to be distracted by my choice of words. I have my reasons for using them, as I do.
There is a tremendou read more »
I am going to speak here in generalities in order to more easily communicate my point. Please do not allow yourselves to be distracted by my choice of words. I have my reasons for using them, as I do.
There is a tremendou read more »
Many of the concepts in Chassidus in this Sedra are very difficult
although the story so far sounds deceptively simple.
Having learned of Avraham as Chesed and Yitzchok as Gevurah, we see
that each extreme yielded i read more »
Note: The Shabbos Torah Reading is divided into 7 sections. Each section is called an Aliya [literally: Go up] since for each Aliya, one person "goes up" to make a bracha [blessing] on the Torah Reading.
1st 2nd & 3rd Aliyot: It's the year 220 read more »
1st 2nd & 3rd Aliyot: It's the year 220 read more »
QUESTION: Rashi comments: "Malachim mamash" - "Actual angels."
What right did Yaakov have to use Hashem's angels as his
messengers?
ANSWER: In the final pesukim of the previous parsha read more »
After Yaacov defeated the Angel of Esav he asked him"whats ur name"? The angel responded "why do u ask 4 my name".Our Sages r bothered why didn't he give His name?
Bh tuesdays(starting this week) I will be giving classes on a point from para read more »
Bh tuesdays(starting this week) I will be giving classes on a point from para read more »
by Rabbanith Ruth Menashe
The meeting between the twin brothers, Ya'aqob Abinu (Jacob) and 'Esau, who had not seen each other for thirty four years, is dramatic and suspenseful. Their conversation reveals much about their pers read more »
Rashi comments on the above pasuk, "You might think that he comes toward you as a brother. He is not. The four hundred men that he has gathered together are a war party, and you are to be the victim. Eisav is coming as Eisav!" Yet, despite Eisav'
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These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand's Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: Tape # 703 - The Bracha on a Mitzvah: When? Good Shabbos!
The Torah describes Yaakov's positioning of his famil read more »
The Torah describes Yaakov's positioning of his famil read more »
by Rabbi Ya'aqob Menashe
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Esau says to Ya'aqob Abinu (Jacob), 'a"h, "I have plenty" (Bereshith 33:9). This is the way of the Resha'im (wicked). They have three bad character traits which are f read more »
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Esau says to Ya'aqob Abinu (Jacob), 'a"h, "I have plenty" (Bereshith 33:9). This is the way of the Resha'im (wicked). They have three bad character traits which are f read more »
Our father Yaakov sends emissaries to meet his brother Eisav and attempst to mollify him and to head off a possibly violent and even fatal confrontation. There are differing opinions in Midrash and the commentaries whether these emissaries were ange
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Beha'alotcha
by Rabbi Eli Mansour
Words of motivation
Audio shiur read more »
Words of motivation
Audio shiur read more »
Beha'alothkha: Moshe Rabbenu epitomized humility
by Rabbi Ya'aqob Menashe
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"And the man Moses was exceedingly humble ('Anaw), more than any man on the face of the earth". Moshe Rabbenu, 'a"h, read more »
by Rabbi Ya'aqob Menashe
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"And the man Moses was exceedingly humble ('Anaw), more than any man on the face of the earth". Moshe Rabbenu, 'a"h, read more »
And Miriam and Aharon spoke about Moshe. (12:1)
Much has been written about the tragic effect of lashon hora, evil, disparaging speech. Perhaps, if we would focus on lashon tov, the far-reaching effect of positive speech, we would react more "po read more »
Much has been written about the tragic effect of lashon hora, evil, disparaging speech. Perhaps, if we would focus on lashon tov, the far-reaching effect of positive speech, we would react more "po read more »
Character Traits - Is it possible to change them?
Women's Corner
by Rabbanith Ruth Menashe
Can we change our habits and improve our natural inclinations? While there may be a range of opinions, Hakham Yoseph Hayyim 'a"h answers the debate w read more »
Women's Corner
by Rabbanith Ruth Menashe
Can we change our habits and improve our natural inclinations? While there may be a range of opinions, Hakham Yoseph Hayyim 'a"h answers the debate w read more »
Friday
Sivan 15 5770
May 28 2010
Parasha Behaalotecha candlelighting7:59
Q of the week:Why didnt Hashem give the people of the Midbar (desert) the Mann one week at a time instead of exact portion every single day?Send your answers to hnjy@ao read more »
Sivan 15 5770
May 28 2010
Parasha Behaalotecha candlelighting7:59
Q of the week:Why didnt Hashem give the people of the Midbar (desert) the Mann one week at a time instead of exact portion every single day?Send your answers to hnjy@ao read more »
This Parshat B’ha’alotcha, I celebrate 36 years since my Bar Mitzva.
Date: June 8, 1974.
Location: B’nai Avraham Synagogue, Winnipeg read more »
At the end of the parsha, Aharon and Miriam, the brother and sister of Moshe, speak badly of their brother. It is not crystal clear what they actually said, but the Torah tells us that it was read more »
by Rabbi Mayer Friedman
“Take the Levites from among the Children of Israel and purify them” (8:6)
The Midrash on this posuk comments that Hashem only gives leadership to a person after he has been tested and has proved his worth. The Leviyi read more »
“Take the Levites from among the Children of Israel and purify them” (8:6)
The Midrash on this posuk comments that Hashem only gives leadership to a person after he has been tested and has proved his worth. The Leviyi read more »
by Rabbi Label Lam
It was in the second year, in the second month on the twentieth of the month, the cloud was lifted from the Tabernacle of the Testimonies. The Children of Israel embarked on their journeys from the Wilderness of Sinai, and the read more »
It was in the second year, in the second month on the twentieth of the month, the cloud was lifted from the Tabernacle of the Testimonies. The Children of Israel embarked on their journeys from the Wilderness of Sinai, and the read more »
by Rabbi Label Lam
Miriram and Aaron spoke about Moshe regarding the Cushite woman he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman. They said, “Was it only with Moshe that HASHEM spoke? Did He not speak with us, as well? And HASHEM heard…Miri read more »
Miriram and Aaron spoke about Moshe regarding the Cushite woman he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman. They said, “Was it only with Moshe that HASHEM spoke? Did He not speak with us, as well? And HASHEM heard…Miri read more »
