PARSHAS TZAV

Parshas Va’eira

Print PDF By Rabbi Shloimie Lindenbaum הן בני ישראל לא שמעו אלי ואיך ישמעני פרעה (פרק ו פסוק יב) Hashem tells Moshe to inform the Jews that Hashem will take them out of מצרים and bring them to ארץ ישראל. The Torah tells us that the did not listen to Moshe because they were too […]

Certainty and Actuality

Print PDF By Rabbi Naftoly Bier In the beginning of פ‘ וארא (ו‘:ג‘) , we are taught one of the essential fundamentals of Hashem’s world. “And I (Hashem) appears to the Patriarchs as קל שקי, but My name which implies my Essential Truth, I didn’t reveal (Myself).” Rashi explains the first name is a manifestation […]

Parshas Shemos

Print PDF By Rabbi Shloimie Lindenbaum ותחיין את הילדים (פרק א פסוק יז) Pharoah commanded the Jewish midwives, Shifrah and Puah, to murder all Jewish male babies. They brazenly ignored the missive, at great personal risk, and did not kill any children. The Torah adds that they also gave life to the children. What is […]

Moshe Rabeinu

Print PDF By Rabbi Naftoly Bier In this week’s פרשה we are introduced to משה רבינו, who eventually would be the one to bring the Torah to Klal Yisroel. Basya, the daughter of Pharaoh, saved his life, after finding him in a basket, floating on the water. She named him משה , Moshe, for מן […]

Parshas Vayechi

Print PDF By Rabbi Shloimie Lindenbaum ויאמר יוסף אל אביו בני הם אשר נתן לי אלקים (פרק מח פסוק ט) When Yaakov is approaching his final day on this world, he calls to Yosef to bless his children. Yosef comes with Menashe and Efraim and Yaakov asks him, “who are these people.” Although Yaakov knew […]

Honesty and Impetuosity

Print PDF By Rabbi Naftoly Bier יעקב אבינו, our patriarch Jacob, before his death, blessed his sons. To ראובן he said, “Reuven, you were to have superior positions, that of kingship and priesthood. But due to water-like impetuosity, you forfeited both of them.” Though Reuven had thought he was acting virtuously in justifying his mother’s […]

Parshas Vayigash

Print PDF By Rabbi Shloimie Lindenbaum ולא יכלו אחיו לענות אותו כי נבהלו מפניו (פרק מה פסוק ג) After Yosef revealed himself to his brothers the Torah tells us that they were too astounded to respond. The Medrash applies this sensation to the final Day of Judgement when we will be faced with the glaring, […]

Measuring and Convincing Another

Print PDF By Rabbi Naftoly Bier In the beginning of the week’s Parsha, we read of the epic battle waged by Yehuda to save Binyomin. Truthfully, the stakes couldn’t be higher; Yosef and Yehuda, two people worthy of sovereignty, are fighting for what they feel will affect the destiny of mankind. Yosef’s plan was to […]

Parshas Mikeitz

Print PDF By Rabbi Shloimie Lindenbaum ירא פרעה איש נבון וחכם (פרק מא פסוק לג) Pharoah pulls Yosef out of jail in a desperate attempt to find out the meaning of his confusing dreams. Yosef successfully interprets the dreams as a prediction of the future economy of מצרים and then continues to advise Pharoah how […]

Creating a Barrier of Protection

Print PDF By Rabbi Naftoly Bier, Rosh Kollel The Parsha begins with the dreams that Pharoah experienced. He instructs that Yosef HaTzaddik be brought to him. In פסוק ט“ו , Pharaoh says, “I dreamed a dream and no one has been able to correctly interpret it, and I heard that you have the ability to […]