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“ויקברו אותו יצחק וישמעאל”… תורה וטיולים עם פרשת חיי שרה (English below) שרה ואברהם עושים את מסעם הרוחני ביחד. קריאה זהירה של הטקסט התורני מגלה לנו שהקב”ה אף פעם לא מדבר עם אברהם כששרה איננה חלק מחייו. אם כך לא … Continue reading →

ותצחק שרה בקרבה לאמר”… פרשת וירא, על דמעות ועל צחוק“ Out of all the topics that the Torah portion of “Veyera” offers this week, it would certainly be “logical” to deal with Akeda, the Binding – the father and his … Continue reading →

….לך-לך… והיה ברכה Avram our father comes from a Zionist family. The journey to the Land of Israel had already begun by his father, Terah, when the situation in Ur of the Chaldeans became unbearable: “… Terah took his son … Continue reading →

פרשת נח – תשפד: דפי זהב There was once a not-so-funny joke about a man who liked to read the Golden (Yellow) Pages. ‘What kind of book is this’, asked his bewildered friend, there is no plot’! ‘Yes, replied the … Continue reading →

דברים לעשות ולא לעשות (רשימה בהתהוות)… – תשרי, תשפד What is said here assumes one has at home – food, water, a charged phone / charger, candles, matches / lighter, blankets, first-aide, and anything else needed for one’s basic physical … Continue reading →

וזאת הברכה… We have come to “Ve’zot Habracha” – and this is The blessing”, the last Torah portion; a portion, that on one hand, does not have its own Shabbat, because it is recited on Simchat-Torah, and on the other … Continue reading →

How are you, she asks me when we meet for our morning coffee. Thank Gd, I answer with a big smile, everything is good. She looks at me, wondering, checking, Everything? Good? I think for a moment, looking around, at … Continue reading →

כנשר יעיר קינו… תורה וטיולים לשבת שובה עם פרשת האזינו The Torah portion of Ha’azinu, read on this Shabbat – Shabbat Shuva between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, is among the shortest Torah portions, and also – the least understood. … Continue reading →

תקע בשופר גדול”… ראש השנה תשפ”ד” Our “Rosh Hashana”, as such, is not mentioned in the Torah. If anything, another month is mentioned as “the first to you of the months of the year” (Exodus 12:2), and that is the … Continue reading →