Choosing a wife!
Finding a wife isn’t a simple task. When you are commissioned to find the wife of your master’s son, the saintly Yitzchak, it’s even tougher. On the surface it looks like Eliezer, servant of Avraham, set out on his task…
Hashem is with you!
In this week’s parasha Eliezer is sent to find a wife for Yitzchak. The Torah’s narrative of the episode is uniquely detailed and seemingly repetitive. The Torah relates how Eliezer requested heavenly guidance, asking Hashem for a specific sign in…
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.…
