Torah Thoughts, Stories, and Inspiration on the weekly Parsha
“Hashem appeared to him in the plains of Mamre…” (18:1) Rashi cites the Medrash that Hashem appeared to Avraham on the territory of Mamre because Mamre gave Avraham the advice to perform the circumcision. Rav Yeruchim Levovitz zt”l stated that from here we see the great merit of giving people good advice. When Hashem commanded Avraham to…
…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…
בראשית ברא… “In the beginning of Hashem’s creating the heavens and earth …” (1:1) I heard from Rav Yitzchok Fingerer that the first letters in the opening Pasuk stress the fact that the building blocks for the creation of the universe were the twenty-two letters of the Aleph Beis. The first letters of each word,…
