parshat hashavua

HE LED FOR one term. But when he refused to turn against the Jews, they got rid of him and

WHY 210 YEARS? That’s what my chavrusa asked me recently. He understood why there had to be slavery, especially kabbalistically. He just hadn’t

THE AVOS, THE Gemora says, were called Yesharim, the Upright Ones, and that they were. Few, if any other peoples,

THIS IS FROM God, that which is wondrous in our eyes” (Tehillim 118:23). I remember the day during Chanukah one

I have mentioned several times in the past that when Yosef, as Viceroy of Egypt, accused his brothers of being

THERE IS THIS joke about a woman who cried the first time she read the story about Yosef’s kidnapping and

WHICH WAS THE real fight, the one with the “stranger” the night before, or with Eisav the next day? Clearly

WHAT A CHANGE of pace. Ya’akov Avinu was forced, due to his mother’s advice to put his life in danger

THE JEWISH PEOPLE have had many enemies over the millennia, but most of them were descendants of either Yishmael or