Parshas Yisro Note: The Shabbos Torah Reading is divided into 7 sections. Each section is called an Aliya [literally: Go up] since for each Aliya, one person “goes up” to make a bracha [blessing] on the Torah Reading. 1st Aliya: Yisro brings Moshe’s wife and two sons to join him in the desert. In 18:10,…
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Parashat Beshalach / פרשת בשלח
Torah Portion Summary of The Weekly Torah Reading: Parshas BeshalachNote: The Shabbos Torah Reading is divided into 7 sections. Each section is called an Aliya [literally: Go up] since for each Aliya, one person “goes up” to make a bracha [blessing] on the Torah Reading. 1st Aliya: The Bnai Yisroel (Children of Israel – Jews)…
Parashat Vaera / פרשת וארא
Parashat Va’era פרשת וארא “And I appeared” “And God spoke to Moses…” (Exodus 6:2) Torah Portion: Exodus 6:2-9:35 Haftarah: Ezekiel 28:25-29-21 B’rit Chadash/New Covenant: Romans 9:14-33 Shabbat |9 January 2016 | 28 Tevet 5776 THE PHARAOH WITHIN US “Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and when he stumbles, let not your heart exult. Lest…
Torah Portion Shemos
Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh (often contracted in English as “I AM”) is one of the Seven Names of God accorded special care by medieval Jewish tradition.[1] The phrase is also found in other world religious literature, used to describe the Supreme Being, generally referring back to its use in Exodus. The word Ehyeh is considered by many rabbinical…
PARASHAS SHEMOS
THE KEY IS SHABBOS Adam was created for the highest mission, to “fill the earth and conquer it and rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and every living being swarming on the earth” (Gen. 1:28). But Adam fell from his mission, and instead of “tending and guarding” the…
Vayeshev וישב “He settled”
Full Kriyah 1: 37:1-11 (11 p’sukim) 2: 37:12-22 (11 p’sukim) 3: 37:23-36 (14 p’sukim) 4: 38:1-30 (30 p’sukim) 5: 39:1-6 (6 p’sukim) 6: 39:7-23 (17 p’sukim) 7: 40:1-23 (23 p’sukim) maf: 40:20-23 (4 p’sukim)
PARSHAT VAYESHEV
SECTION IX. VAYESHEV. And Jakob dwelt in peace in the land of the sojourning of his fathers, in the land of Kenaan. These are the generations of Jakob. Joseph was a son of seventeen years. He had come forth from the school, and was a youth brought up with the sons of Bilhah and…
Torah Logic Essentials
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Words that Matter
Fourth Reading: Genesis 19:21–21:4 The angel sent to overthrow Sodom told Lot that he was about to destroy it, as if to say that he had the power to do so himself. מֵהרִהָמֵּלטָשָׁמּהִכּי לֹא אוַּכלַלֲעשׂוֹתָדָּברַעד בֲֹּאƈָשָׁמּה וגו’: (בראשית יט:כב) [The angel said to Lot,] “Hurry! Escape [to the nearby city], for I can do nothing…
Vayera – “And He Appeared”
Christopher discusses the laws of kashrot (kosher) in relation to the separation of meat and cheese. Does this Torah Portion say that Avraham served his guests (the three angels) meat and cheese together? Or is there more to this? Also, Christopher shows in this Torah Portion why the Pharisees believed in resurrection and how Isaac…
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