Parshat Hashavua
To Count and To Keep
Rav Avishai Schreiber • 2007The Counting of the Omer is a preperation to the giving of the Torah because it stopps the race of time, and teaches us to live every day for himself.
Camps and Journeys
Eitan Abramovitch • 2008The Midrash and the Izhbitzer Rebbe see the camping orders in the desert as a model for the balance between order and chaos, borders and transgress...
Simple Vessels and the Shame of Memory
Rav Dr noam samet • 2008To what extent can man's avodat Hashem be meaningful? the Midrash on parashat Behaalotcha teaches us to find meaning in our humble efforts.
To remove oneself or to rise
Rabbi Dr. Ori Lifshitz • 2018Moshe and Aharon decide not to remove themselves from the sinners, but to fall on their faces, to stay connected to those who find themselvs at the...
?What does He really think of us
Elyashiv Cherlow • 2018Parashat Balak, which takes place outside of the plot, gives us an opportunity to hear what God says about us when we are not around.
!Tzadik, eat to satiety
Eitan Abramovitch • 2008The Midrash on our Parasha deals with the meaning of the sacrifices, but it also has some things to tell us about our eating habits.
Ha'azinu: A Song of Transition
Rav Elchanan Nir • 2018The song of Parshat Ha'azinu is a transition between the first part of Tishrei festivals and the second, between the days of judgement and the days...
A World of Sand
Rav Ori Lifshitz • 2017Avraham wandered from place to place, along the length and breadth of the land. Is this a decree, the covenant of fate decreed against the Jew, or ...
Chayei Sarah - Love and Din
R. Yehuda (Udi) Dvorkin • 2018A look at the first love story in the bible, between Yitzchak and Rivka.
A Possible Partnership: The Match - An Incident, An Absolute
Rav Yair Dreifuss • 2018The decision has the power to turn strangeness into intimacy, family. A deep discussion on the meaning of marriage.
VaYetze - Opened, Closed, Opened
Rav Dr. Eitan Abramovitch • 2018single mass of letters - The Sefat Emet about devotion and unity in Parshat VaYetze.
Yosef and Yehuda through the Sfat Emet’s eyes
Prof. Zohar Maor • 2008Yosef represents the concealed holiness, while Yehuda the revealed holiness. Therefore the “crown of governance” was anointed to Yehuda. Yet, in th...
