THANKS TO HASHEM
Thanking G-d at every stage in your life is important. In the olden days the Mizbeach (altar) represented the place in which a person could offer up thanks to Hashem. At the end of this week’s Parsha, the Torah tells…
Parasha Insights
This week’s Torah reading relates that Abraham established an inn for guests, and there he “called upon the name of the eternal G-d.” Our Rabbis interpret this phrase, explaining that the intent is not that only Abraham himself called to…
Making a change
Hashem said to Avraham ‘Go for yourself, from yourland, from your birth place, and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you’ (Bereishis 12:1). Rashi says that the destination was not revealed immediately in order to…
Never Enough!
KelatyMany of you will be familiar with the following domestic scene: Husband goes out shopping, bearing huge shopping list from Wife. Husband goes to kosher shop, trawling round and round the aisles, furiously crossing off things from the the list.…
Beneath The Surface
Have you ever seen an iceberg up close? Take a look at the picture on this page. Quite startling. The photograph came from a rig manager for Global Marine Drilling in St. John, Newfoundland. They have to divert the path…
Parasha Insights
As we complete the first book of the Torah we are left with a subconscious message hinted throughout the Parasha. It all begins with the name of this week’s Parasha – Vayechi. In essence the Parasha relates Yaakov’s last years…
