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…
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…
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…
Do the dead outnumber the living?
As of August 2016, the world population was estimated at 7.4 billion. The United Nations estimates it will further increase to 11.2 billion in the year 2100. A student recently approached me and told me that, “there are more people…
Who’s Judging?
Just over a hundred years ago an Italian salesman was sent to far islands to assess the market there for shoes. He scouted around for a few days and then headed for the telegraph office to contact company headquarters. He…
