Parashat Vayeitzei: Ma’aser, A Symbol Of Permanence
By Rabbi Moshe Bloom
Torah VeHa'aretz Institute
“If G-d remains with me … and of all that You give me, I will set aside a tithe for you.” (Bereishit 28:20–22)
A Tenth...
Bloom: Parashat Toldot, Yitzchak’s Gevurah In Gerar
By Rabbi Moshe Bloom
Torah VeHa'aretz Institute
“And the Philistines stopped up all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham, filling them with...
Toldos: The Book Or The Blade?
By Rabbi Yossy Goldman
הקול קול יעקב והידים ידי עשו
“The voice is the voice of Yaakov but the hands are the hands of Eisav.”
—Bereishis 27:22
Who are we? Who were we?...
Bloom: Parashat Chayei Sarah, The Patriarch Who Never Left Israel
By Rabbi Moshe Bloom
Torah VeHa'aretz Institute
“… but do not take my son back there.” (Bereishit 24:8)
Our only patriarch who was born in the Land of Israel, never to leave,...
Chayei Sarah: Yiddishe Nachas
By Rabbi Yossy Goldman
Once upon a time, a pious Jew was traveling through the countryside in Eastern Europe. He came to a shtetl where the local schochet (ritual slaughterer)...
Parashat Vayeira: The Overturning Of Sodom
By Rabbi Moshe Bloom
Torah VeHa'aretz Institute
“And Hashem said, ‘Shall I conceal from Avraham what I am doing, now that Avraham is surely to become a great and mighty nation,...
Vayeira: The Boy Or the Bottle?
By Rabbi Yossy Goldman
ותשלך את הילד תחת אחד השיחים
—Bereishis 21:15
How we spend our money is usually a pretty good barometer of where our priorities lie. And it applies equally...
Lech Lecha: Airport Story
By Rabbi Yossy Goldman
Every rabbi has an airport story. Some rabbis tell so many incredible stories of providential encounters on airplanes and in airports that I sometimes wonder if...
Parashat Lech-Lecha: The Two Sides Of The Co(i)nvert
By Rabbi Moshe Bloom
Torah VeHa'aretz Institute
Avraham: Father Of Jews And Converts
“You shall be the father of a multitude of nations …” (Bereishit 17:4–6).
We learn in the name of R’...
Identity Crisis: Emerging From The Water Reborn
By Shmuel Reichman
Imagine you wake up in a hospital bed with amnesia, and haven’t the foggiest clue who you are. You try to recall your most recent memory and...
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