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Lech Lecha - Bitachon
How can one comprehend the fact that a Jew in the most miserable of situations nevertheless affirms, "Gam zu l'tovah! (It is all for the best!)"It is a character trait inherited from our forefather...
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Vayera - Good Deeds
Hachnasat Orchim - HospitalityAvraham, by means of his hospitality and teachings, drew tens of thousands of people to Hashem's service. (Rambam)A person must constantly ask himself, "When shall my...
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Vayera - Say Little and Do Much
“Shammai said, make your Torah study fixed, say little and do much, and receive everyone with a cheerful countenance.” (Pirkei Avot)Tzaddikim promise little and do much, while the wicked make big...
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Chayei Sarah - Sarah's Legacy
And Yitzchak brought her [Rivkah] into the tent of his mother Sarah...and he loved her; and Yitzchak was comforted after his mother's death. (Bereishit 24:67)Sarah lived on…in Rivkah's virtues.The...
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Vayetze - Five Miracles
Five miracles occurred with Jacob when he left Be'er-Sheva:The day was cut short, and the sun set before its time, because G‑d wished to talk to himWhen he awoke in the morning, he found that the four...
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Vayishlach
"The dust of their feet went up to the Divine Throne". (Chullin 91a) Midrash tells us that all Yaakov's gifts came as a result of this "dust." Furthermore, all the "gifts that Yisrael would gain in...
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Vayeshev - Yirat Shamayim
Bereishit 39:2 "Hashem was with Yosef, and he became a successful man."Harav Bunim M'Peshischa notes the Torah's emphasis on Yosef's "remembering" the source of his success. He realized that the...
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Zot Chanukah
Zot Chanukah!THIS, THE EIGHTH DAY OF CHANUKAH – the fact that there are 8 days of Chanukah – ZOT CHANUKAH, this is what Chanukah means. It means EIGHT. EIGHT is our answer to the Greek challenge. They...
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Vayechi - Burial in Eretz Yisrael
Burial in Eretz YisraelBurial in the Holy Land confers a great advantage for six reasons:When a person dies, the soul leaves the body. If this occurs in Eretz Yisrael, the soul ascends directly to...
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Shemot - Shiviti - I Place Hashem Before Me Always
shiviti Hashem l'negdi tamid“I place Hashem before me always.”Shemot 2:1 A man of the house of Levi went and married a daughter of Levi.BeRahamim LeHayyim: Those who are the most connected, stay...
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Va'era - To KNOW G-d
Shemot 6:7 "And I will take you to me as My people, and I will be to you a G‑d; and you shall know that I am HASHEM your G‑d, Who brings you out from the under the oppression of Egypt." This...
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Va'era - Revelation
Faith in G-d cures our spiritual blindness.The name of the parasha, "Va'era", can be read two ways: "I showed Myself" and "I show myself" - both past and present.Torah Ohr says that G-d's revelation of...
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Parashat Beshalach - Tehillim 77
Parashat BeshalachTehillim 77Your way, O G-d, is holy. Who is so great a G-d as our G-d? You are the G-d that does wonders; you have declared your strength among the people. With your arm you have...
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Parashat Beshalach - Pillar of Cloud
Shemot 14:19And the malach of G-d, who went before the camp of Yisrael, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud went from before them and stood behind them.20 So it came between the camp of...
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Parashat Yitro - Dining with a Torah Scholar
Illustration image: Yitro and Moshe, watercolor by James Tissot (1896-1900)Shemot 18:12And Yitro, Moshe's father-in-law, took a burnt-offering and sacrifices for G-d; and Aharon came, and all the...
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Parashat Mishpatim
These are the judgments you shall place before them.” (Shemot 21:1)The Zohar on Parshat Mishpatim 94a comments “These are the orders of reincarnations.” This may seem perplexing at first glance, as...
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Parashat Terumah - The Menorah
(Temple Menorah according to Rambam's drawing)The form of the Menorah symbolized the Torah. The 7 branches parallel the seven words in the first verse in Bereishit in original Hebrew.The 11 spheres on...
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Parashat Terumah - Lamps
(Drawing of the Temple menorah, in Rambam's own hand, in a manuscript of his Perush Ha'Mishnayot, illustrating his comments on Menachot 3:7)The Menorah with its seven lamps corresponded to the seven...
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