Rabbi’s Articles
TAL is very lucky to have new articles each week written not only by their well known and respected Rabbi Tawil, but also by guest Rabbis.
Rabbi Tawil
Each week Rabbi Tawil writes an article welcoming in Shabbat and giving us his thoughts and insights on the weekly Parasha. Rabbi Tawil’s articles incorporate an amazing understanding of the weekly Torah content as well as its meaning and how it relates to our everyday lives.
In addition to Rabbi Tawil’s articles, TAL is honoured to have a guest Rabbi write for them each week in their Parasha Sheet. Their article is also published live on the TAL website, and provides a further thought provoking insight to the weekly Torah portion.
The articles written by different Rabbis each week are a wonderful way to build knowledge and insight from the Torah and gain values and inspiration to guide us all in our everyday lives.
What is freedom?
Rabbi jonathan Shooter
What was the purpose of the going out from Egypt? Hashem informed Moshe that upon leaving they would ‘serve Hashem ...
Making a Mockery
Rabbi Jonathan Tawil
A typical Jewish married couple are the proud parents of a 12-year-old daughter. They are not at all Jewishly observant, ...
Were was the free will of Pharaoh ?
Rabbi MordechaiFhima
Based on RavDessler’s MechtavM’Eliyahu In ParashatVa’era, Hashem performs a wealth of miracles in the first seven makot. We become so awed by ...
HashemMelech!
Rabbi Jonathan Tawil
At a Brit in Jerusalem a great Rabbi stood up to speak and wish well to the grandfather, an accomplished ...
FAILURE IS AN OPTION
Rabbi Joseph Dweck
Senior Rabbi of The S&P Sephardi Community “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to ...
Share the pain!
Rabbi Jonathan Tawil
The GemaraSotah (11a) tells us that Pharaoh had three advisers: Yitro, Iyov and Bilam. Pharaoh wished to decide how to ...
Parasha Insights
Rabbi Jonathan Tawil
As we complete the first book of the Torah we are left with a subconscious message hinted throughout the Parasha ...
YOLO and Ya’akov
Rabbi Avraham Citron
You Only Live Once, but are you alive? Some YOLO’s eat, drink and make merry, for after all, tomorrow they ...
HaodAviHai? – Is my father still alive?
Rabbi Joseph Pearlman
After Yehuda has finished his plea for the release of Binyamin in the previous chapter 44, Yoseph was unable to ...
Am Yisrael Chai
Rabbi Jonathan Tawil
On Friday November the 13th, we were all saddened to learn of the murder of Rabbi Yaakov Litman and his ...
Jewish Pride
Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet
What was the secret of Joseph’s success that enabled him to constantly rise after each fall? How does a man ...
DreidelDreidelDreidel…..
Rabbi Jonathan Tawil
The Ancient Greeks have contributed a great deal to society. They played an important part in the development of the ...
Jerusalem Live!
Rabbi Yitzchak HakohenTawil
“He mourned for his son for many days (22 yrs!)….and he refused to be comforted” (37:34) Rashi explains that G-d ...
Just say No!
Rabbi Jonathan Tawil
Imagine one of those typical days in London. The clouds are heavy, the wind is strong and the rain doesn’t ...
All in the Details
Rabbi Yaron Jacobs
In the entire book of Bereishis – the longest of the five books of the Torah – there are a grand Total of three Mitzvos! ...
Where was Dina?
Rabbi Jonathan Tawil
Yaakov was preparing for his encounter with Esav. He transferred the entire family across the river. Yet the Torah seems ...
True value – The fire and the flame
Rabbi Benjamin Stone
As I stood outside the bombed out crematoria three in Auschwitz – Birkenau earlier this week I heard how the cries ...
Parasha Insights
Rabbi Jonathan Tawil
After seven years of working hard for Lavan in order to marry his daughter Rachel, and eager to build the ...
Aftershock
Rabbi MashiachKelaty
Yitzchak entreated Hashem… Hashem allowed Himself to be entreated by him, and his wife Rivkah conceived. (25:21) Can we even ...
G-d intervenes!
Rabbi Jonathan Tawil
Since creation of our state, the land of Israel has been continuously targeted and gone through tough times. There seems ...
Parasha Insights
Rabbi Amos Azizoff
Our Torah is a Book of Commandments, yet SeferBeraishit, the longest of the Five Books, deals mostly with the history ...
Sarah’s Fear
Rabbi Raphael Goldblatt
Towards the beginning of this week’s parsha, a very surprising thing occurs. Sarah Imeinu, renowned in divreiChazal for her prophecy ...
Alarm Bells Ringing
Rabbi Jonathan Tawil
The alarm rings, its six thirty in the morning, your head is spinning, you wonder to yourself what day is ...
Your only son, the one you love
Rabbi Sam Milunchick
At the end of this week’s Torah reading, we are confronted with what we are told is Avraham’s final test, ...
Shabbat UK Shalom!
Rabbi Jonathan Tawil
A couple came in for counselling. The husband was a football ‘fanatic’. The wife spoke of how every night he ...
Parasha Insights
Guest Rabbi
As we read about the mabul that destroyed an entire generation, and left only NOACH with his family intact in ...
How’s your commute?
Rabbi Jonathan Tawil
If you think your commute home is bad, well you’re lucky you don’t live in China! Nobody likes sitting in ...
Cleaning Out The Dust
Rabbi Jonathan Tawil
Succot has finally arrived. Everyone’s busy preparing for the Chag, getting the Arba Minim, building beautiful Succot. Question: Where did ...
The Elephant and the Ivory Tower
Rabbi Adrian Kelaty
Elephants are pretty powerful creatures. They can weigh as much as 12 tons, and stand as high as thirteen feet ...
The Important Rope
Rabbi Jonathan Tawil
Winter had settled in, and storms were conjuring up, but the family of four had to make their way to ...
Yom Kippur Insights
Rabbi Dovid Kaplan
As we approach Yom Kippur and the sealing of our destiny for the coming year, there is a sense some ...
The power of Our Speech
Rabbi Danny Kada
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me’ is a well-known English idiom. But what ...
Awake from your slumber!!
Rabbi Iona Blickstein
Rambam (Hilchot Teshuvah 3) writes: “Although the sounding of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah is a Divine decree [which is ...
Yom Kippur Insights
Rabbi Assaf Portal
הצב”י אסף פורטל ס”ט והחתן עמד בפתח מחייך”… החגים הנפלאים שלנו צבעוניים הם. זוהרים בססגוניותם. סעודת ליל ראש השנה על ...
