Trust or Effort
While the Jewish People travelled and sojourned in the desert, G-d sustained them with the Manna – heavenly bread. It was a miraculous food that was sent daily from heaven and tasted according to each person’s wishes. The experience of…
Parasha Insights
How is your schedule looking next week? Shouldn’t really talk about it on Shabbat, but I am asking as this question has a specific lesson to teach. We are grateful to be living in one of the most advanced nations…
The Second Opening of the Sea
Two weeks ago, I heard a beautiful shiur from Rabbi YY Jacobson, the likes of which I have never heard before, when he was in London for the Aleinu conference. The opening of our portion relates how Pharaoh reconsidered immediately…
The story behind the three days!
Finally Am Yisrael are on their way. It’s been a long 210 years in exile and they are headed towards receiving the Torah and on to the promised land of Israel. Yet the commentators are puzzled. How come when G-d…
Seeing in the Dark
How will the most expensive divorce in history affect Amazon? The world’s richest man Jeff Bezos is splitting from his wife of 25 years – Mackenzie. Amazons founder Jeff is worth $134 billion, but a 50:50 split would mean he…
The Second Splitting of the Sea and It’s Ramifications
‘Daber el Bnei Yisroel veyoshvu veyachanu… veomar Phaorah levenei yisroel nevuchim heim boaretz’ ‘Speak to the Children of Israel and let them turn back and encamp…Pharaoh will say to the Children of Israel they are confined in the land’ (CH 14, V…
