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Vayechi
Rabbi Jablinowitz
Rashi comments on the first pasuk in this week’s parsha that our parsha is a “parsha setuma”, a closed parsha. This means that there is no space in the Sefer Torah between the end of last week’s parsha and the beginning of our parsha. The reason for this, Rashi teaches in his Read more...
Parshat Bereishis 5780
Rabbi Jablinowitz
We read in this week's parsha (Chapter 2, Pasuk 3), Vayevarech Elokim es Yom Ha'Shvi'i Vayekadesh Oso, Gd blessed and sanctified Shabbos. Rashi explains that the bracha of Shabbos was the double portion of mahn Bnei Yisrael received for Shabbos on Erev Shabbos, and the sanctification of Shabbos was Read more...
Parshat Lech Lecha 5779
Rabbi Jablinowitz
The Medrash Rabbah begins its discussion on this week's parsha (and it also appears in the Medrash Tanchuma, 3) with the pasuk in Tehillim (Chapter 45, Pasuk 11), Shim'i Bas U'Re'i V'Hati Aznech V'Shichechi Ameich U'Beis Avich. Listen my daughter and see, focus your ear, forget your nation and your Read more...
Parshat Vayera 5779
Rabbi Jablinowitz
We read in this week's parsha that the one of the angels who visits Avraham told Sarah that she was going to have a son. We read that Sarah responded by laughing, as the pasuk says (Chapter 18, Pasuk 12), Vatitzchak Sarah B'Kirbah Leimor. As Rashi explains, she laughed and looked at herself, seeing Read more...
