Dvar Torah – Parshas Vayera

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Parshas Vayera Actual Angel Food And he took cream and milk and the calf that he had prepared, and he placed [them] before them, and he was standing over them under the tree, and they ate. (Breishis 18:8) Okay, Avraham fed some guests and they ate. What’s the big…

Haftarah of Parshas Chukas

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BS”D KNOW YOUR BIBLE: Judges Chapters 11-12 Study Notes by Avraham ben Yaakov JUDGES CHAPTER 11 * * * Judges 11:1-33 is the Haftarah of Parshas Chukas, Leviticus 19:1-22:1 * * * GOOD INTENTIONS Like Avimelech, Yiftach (Jepthah) son of Gil’ad, the Tenth Judge of Israel, was also the…

Haftorah – Parshas Vayera

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Parshas Vayera M’lochim 2 4:1 This week’s Haftorah reveals to us an incredible dimension of faith and its astounding result. Out of deep appreciation to a Shunamite lady’s hospitality the Prophet Elisha promised that she would bear a son. This startling prediction raised major concern due to her elderly…

Shulchan Aruch

Chapter 33 – OTHER CHAMETZ LAWS Grain, even if it has been roasted, should be kept from contact with water because it may become CHAMETZ (463:3), and the same is true for grain shells (see 465:1-3). On keeping grain from contact with liquids see 466:1-3; on what to do with flour or grain that may…

Parshas Vayera

Parshas Vayera Vayera, 5632/33 The Sfas Emes begins this ma’amar with a quotation from the second paragraph of Medrash Rabba on this parsha. That Medrash Rabba, in turn, cites a pasuk in Iyov (19:26): “Ve’achar ori nikfu zohs; umibsari echezeh Eloka.” (ArtScroll: “After my skin was stricken, they pierced me; and I see the judgment…

Parshas Vayera

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Parshas Vayera 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: The three angels appear to Avraham and foretell the…

Haftorah – Parshas Bereishis

Parshas Bereishis Yeshaya 42:5 – 43:10 We introduce the year’s Haftora reading with a penetrating message defining our awesome role in this world. Rashi quotes the Sages’ Aggadic interpretation of the Torah’s opening word, “Breishis” to mean, “For the sake of the choice”. Based on references from the books of Yirmiyahu and Mishle, the Sages…

Parshas Bereishis

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. In the beginning G-d created separate and different creations. Each of these separate and different creations has its own…

Parshas Bereishis

Parshas Bereishis By Nosson Chayim Leff Bereishis, 5631 (1871) Let us begin from the beginning, the first ma’amar of the Sfas Emes on Parshas Bereishis. The Sfas Emes starts by quoting Rashi’s comment on the posuk (Bereishis, 2,2) “Vayechal Elokim … ” Says Rashi: “Ma haya ha’olam chaseir? Menucha! Bah Shabbos, bah menucha. Kalsa nenigmera…

VEZOTH HABBERAKAH

Jerusalem Targum Pgs. 672-685 Ch. 33-34 SECTION LIV. VEZOTH HABBERAKAH. XXXIII. AND this is the order of the Benedictions wherewith Mosheh the Prophet blessed the children of Israel before he died. And he said: The Lord was revealed at Sinai to give the law unto His people of Beth Israel, and the splendour of the…

HAAZINU TARGUM OF ONKELOS ON THE TORAH

HAAZINU XXXII. LISTEN, ye heavens, and I will speak ; give ear, O earth, to the words of my mouth. My doctrine shall be soft as rain; let it be received as the dew, and my word be as the breath of the rain that breathes upon the grass, and as the showers of the…

Parsha Summary – Parshas Haazinu

Parshas Haazinu 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: Moshe begins by describing the presence of Hashem in nature as being as evident as…