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Parashas Noach
Rabbi Jablinowitz
We read in this week's parsha (Chapter 6, Pasuk 12), Ki Hishchis Kal Basar Es Darko al Ha'aretz. The Torah tells us that everyone had destroyed their ways and was acting immorally. Rashi learns that the term "Kal Basar" comes to teach that not only were people acting immorally, b Read more...
Parshat Lech Lecha
Rabbi Jablinowitz
We read in this week's parsha (Chapter 12, Pasuk 2), V'E'escha L'Goy Gadol, And I will make you into a great nation. Rashi comments on these words, Zeh She'Omrim Elokei Avraham, this is expressed by the words in the first bracha of Shemoneh Esrei, Elokei Avraham, the Gd Read more...
Vayechi
Rabbi Jablinowitz
There is a remarkable similarity between Yaakov blessing his grandchildren, Ephraim and Menashe, in this week’s parsha and Yitzchak blessing his children in parshas Toldos. Just as the younger Yaakov received the blessing over his older brother Eisav, so too Yaakov blesses the younger Ephraim Read more...
Vayigash
Rabbi Jablinowitz
We read in the beginning of this week's parsha that Yehuda approaches Yosef and requests that he be allowed to remain in Egypt as a slave to Yosef and that Binyamin should be allowed to return home. The Medrash teaches different opinions as to what Yehuda was doing. Some say he was preparing for war Read more...
