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Parshas Miketz – Chanukah

Posted on December 21, 2022December 21, 2022 By parsha
Parshas Miketz – Chanukah

Shabbos Chanukah typically falls out on Parshas Miketz. In Miketz we read about Pharaoh’s dream of the weakly, thin cows that devour the strong, healthy cows. Yet, astoundingly, the weak cows didn’t look different. They didn’t gain any physical weight. This unique phenomenon is symbolic of Chanukah. Rav Yitzchok Fingerer explains that the “weak” Jews…

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Parshas Miketz

Posted on December 21, 2022December 21, 2022 By parsha
Parshas Miketz

“And it was the end of two years …” (41:1) The opening verse in this week’s Parsha Vayehi Mikeitz Shenasayim Yamim literally means, “And it was the end of two years.” However, according to the R’ Shraga Yair of Bialovzeg, it can also mean: Mikeitz, at the end of days, Shenasayim, years, Yomim, will turn…

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Sefer Bereishis

Chanukah – Being Happy

Posted on December 14, 2022December 17, 2022 By parsha
Chanukah – Being Happy

What is Chanukah? The Rabbanim learned… (Shabbos 21b) Although there are many lessons learned from the miracles that occurred on Chanukah, the Sefer Torah Tavlin Al HaMoadim quotes the Nesivos Shalom, Rav Shalom Berezovsky zt”l, who writes that the essence of Chanukah is simchah (happiness). He notes that it is customary for Jews to wish…

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Yomim Tovim

Parshas Vayishlach

Posted on December 7, 2022December 17, 2022 By parsha
Parshas Vayishlach

“And Yaakov was left alone…” (32:25) In this week’s Parsha we are told that Jews are forbidden to eat the Gid HaNashe (Sciatic Nerve) The Chizkuni writes that this is so because Yaakov’s children left him alone. They should have accompanied and sought to protect their father. They are blamed for the injury that Yaakov incurred. Rav Yitzchok…

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Sefer Bereishis

Parshas Vayatzi

Posted on November 29, 2022December 17, 2022 By parsha
Parshas Vayatzi

“And he arrived at the place…” (28:11) In this week’s Parsha, we are told that our patriarch Yaakov was traveling. He laid down to go to sleep and he had a dream. When Yaakov awoke from his dream he was immediately spurred to action. He recognized the holiness of the place and the importance of…

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Sefer Bereishis

Parshas Chayie Sarah

Posted on November 16, 2022November 22, 2022 By parsha
Parshas Chayie Sarah

“Now Avraham was old, he came with his days”(24:1) “Now Avraham was old, he came with his days” (24:1) There is an idea here expressed by many commentaries that when the verse says that Avraham came with all his days, we learn that not one day in Avraham’s life was wasted. Each and every day he accomplished something. (Maayanah Shel…

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Sefer Bereishis

Parshas Lech Lecha

Posted on November 1, 2022November 20, 2022 By parsha
Parshas Lech Lecha

…לך-לך מארצך “Go forth from your land…” (12:1) There is a tremendous anomaly in the first Pasuk in this week’s Parsha. It contains six final Chof letters (ך), almost in succession. What is the deeper message?  I heard from Rav Yitzchok Fingerer shlit”a that the gematria (numerical value) of a Chof is 20. The total…

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