Yosef was imprisoned in a dungeon for many years for a crime he never committed. He had been framed. Finally, an opportunity arose whereby there was a small glimmer of hope that he could free himself from the confines of…
Category: Dvar Torah on the Parasha
Parshas Va’Yeshev – Shaming a person in public
A terrible scandal was brewing. Tomor, Yehudah’s daughter in law, was about to be taken out to be burned to death, yet she refused to tell anyone that it was Yehudah who was her real husband. She’d rather allow herself…
Parshas Va’yishlach – Kiruv
As Yaakov is approaching Eisav and his 400 hoodlums, he realizes that he must hide his daughter Dinah. She is such a stunning beauty that he is afraid that the moment Eisav sees her he will want to marry her.…
Parshas Vayetze, Our Failing Yeshiva Systems, and One Possible Reason Why People Go Off the Derech
In this past weeks’ Parsha we read about Yaakov leaving Be’er Sheva and left to Charan. According to the Gemara (Megillah 17a), Yaakov spent 14 years in Yeshivas Shem V’Ever. Rabbeinu Artscroll explains in the Stone Chumash that, the Torah…
Parshas Va’yetzei – The Peace Agreement between Yaakov and Lovon
How strange! While Lovon gave the name “Yigar Sahadusa,” in Aramaic, to the place where he and Yaakov made peace with each other, Yaakov renamed it by its Hebrew equivalent, “Gal’ed”. One wonders why the Torah bothers giving us the…
Parshas Toldos – A look into Yaakov’s name
The name “Yaakov” is a most interesting one indeed. It stands for eikev, which means “heel,” the bottom of the foot. He was named that way on account of the way he was born. Yaakov held onto Eisav’s heel as…
Parshas Kidoshim – “Love your neighbor as yourself”
We live in a world filled with intense hatred. There are Serbs and Croatians killing each other in Yugoslavia, Sikhs slaughtering Hindus, Africans murdering Africans, Lebanese killing one another. Yet there is no hatred as intense as the hatred toward…
Chayei Sarah – What To Look For
Eliezer is faced with a most difficult task. It is his responsibility to choose a fitting and suitable ‘shidduch’ for Yitzchok, who was certainly a person of impeccable character and of the highest stature one could possibly imagine. What qualities…
Parshas Va’yeira – Doing a Good Deed
Utterly amazing! Avrohom Avinu is honored by having the greatest visitor that a human can ever hope to have. None other than Hashem Himself comes to visit Avrohom. Can there be a greater moment in a person’s life than to…
Lech L’cha – Thank G-d We Were Born Jewish
Let your imagination flow freely for a moment. Imagine you were born in a small town down south. Your parents are devout Catholics, as are all the people in your town. You attend a good Catholic school which teaches you…