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The Coming Week’s Daf Yomi by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz This essay is based upon the insights and chidushim (original ideas) of Talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, as published in the Hebrew...

In soccer, the ultimate indignity is scoring a goal – for the other team. In a roughly equivalent parallel and a somewhat more significant circumstance, a paranoid Pharaoh ends up serving...

Parashat Shemot 5768 Read last year’s dvar torah – Parashat Shemot 5767 Parashat Shemot 5768 In your Torah experiences of yeshiva learning or rabbis’ speeches etc., did you ever come across...

Sefer Shemos opens with the emergence of the Jewish People as a nation. The psukim graphically portray Pharaoh as a murderer of Jewish children and torturer of their parents. The Torah...

Parashat Shemot 5768 Parashat Shemot – Anonymity Letter Sent to President Bush on behalf of Jonathan Pollard Text Message Responsa Stories of Rabbenu – Our Rabbi: Ha-Rav Tzvi Yehudah HaKohen Kook...

The Coming Week’s Daf Yomi by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz This essay is based upon the insights and chidushim (original ideas) of Talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, as published in the Hebrew...

The Coming Week’s Daf Yomi by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz This essay is based upon the insights and chidushim (original ideas) of Talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, as published in the Hebrew...

The Coming Week’s Daf Yomi by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz This essay is based upon the insights and chidushim (original ideas) of Talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, as published in the Hebrew...

After Yaakov’s death, Yosef’s brothers are afraid he will now take revenge on them for selling him into slavery. They tell him that Yaakov himself ordered him to forgive them (Bereshit...

Parashat Vayechi 5768 and The Tenth of Tevet (Read last year’s dvar torah too – Parashat Vayechi 5767) PART ONE: The Tenth of Tevet PART TWO: I Would Prefer Not To Be Here...