Category: Parsha
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“Vayeitzei Yaakov.” Rashi asks why the Torah mentions the leaving when we already know he’s going to Charan. Because when a tzadik leaves, the spiritual atmosphere shifts. His presence lifts the city, and when he’s gone, people feel the loss. If one tzadik’s departure creates a void, imagine the impact of all of Klal Yisrael…
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In Parshat Vayeitzei, when Yaakov arrives at the well in Charan after his dream, he sees shepherds waiting around instead of tending their flocks. He eventually rebukes them — “The day is still long… give the sheep to drink and go pasture them.” But before he says a word of criticism, the Torah highlights something…
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If My Father Were Here Today… In Parshat Toldot, Yitzchak tries to continue Avraham’s path exactly. He digs the same wells. He gives them the same names. And when famine strikes, he prepares to do what Avraham did — go down to Mitzrayim. But Hashem stops him.“Al teired Mitzraymah. Gur ba’aretz hazot.” Ramban explains that…
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Some stories don’t begin at birth. They begin before. Rivka feels a storm inside her and runs to ask Hashem what is happening. His answer sets the tone for all of Jewish history: “Two nations are in your womb… two regimes will separate from within you.” This isn’t a sibling rivalry. It’s the opening chapter…
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Chazal tell us that as long as Sarah Imeinu lived, her tent was filled with open miracles. Bereishit Rabbah teaches that her Shabbat candles stayed lit from week to week, a cloud of the Shechina hovered above her tent, and her dough was blessed. It wasn’t just a home. It was a place where Hashem’s…
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Chayei Sarah – Becoming Someone Who Can Laugh at the End Chayei Sarah opens with the words “Vayihyu chayei Sarah…” — and Chazal point us to something extraordinary. The Chasam Sofer, based on the pasuk “Yodeia Hashem yemei temimim…” (Tehillim 37:18), explains that the lives of the temimim, those who walk with wholehearted trust, are…
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Avraham Avinu showed us what bitachon really means.Hashem promised him that Yitzchak would be his future — “ki b’Yitzchak yikarei lecha zera,” your offspring will come through Yitzchak.And then Hashem commanded him to bring that very son as a korban. It made no sense.The promise and the command couldn’t coexist — at least not from…
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Both Avraham and Sarah laughed when they heard the impossible: that a child would be born to them in their old age.But their laughs were not the same. Avraham laughed out of joy — out of awe at the greatness of Hashem and the beauty of a promise being fulfilled.Sarah laughed out of disbelief —…
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Have you ever noticed how the moments that changed you most were rarely the comfortable ones?The times you grew weren’t when life felt easy — they were when you were pushed, stretched, or forced out of your comfort zone. That’s how the story of the Jewish people begins — with two words: Lech Lecha.Hashem tells…
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Lech Lecha wasn’t just a command to Avraham — it was a call that echoes through every Jewish soul.The Lubavitcher Rebbe taught that “the command Lech Lecha remains an ongoing mission for all of Avraham’s descendants. Until the coming of Mashiach.” Chazal teach that the world was created in six days, corresponding to 6,000 years…
