62 Lessons
What Motivated Avraham's Kindness?
Rabbi Moshe Leib Halberstadt | 7 Cheshvan 5785
Parashat Hashavua: The Challenge of Moving
Rabbi Yossef Carmel | Cheshvan 5785
A Famine in the Land – What’s the Point?
Rabbi Yossef Carmel | 8 Shvat 5784
Lech Lecha
Rabbi Berel Wein | 8 Shvat 5784
On Being a Jewish Parent
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | 7 Shvat 5784
Patriarch on the Move
Rabbi Haggai Lundin | 11 Cheshvan 5784
The Nature of the Land of Israel
"The Sfat Emet (the saintly Gerrer Rebbe) explains that G-d did not immediately reveal to Avraham the location of Eretz Yisrael because 'that itself is an aspect of Eretz Yisrael.' That is, in order to reach the Land in which we can "see G-d's face" (see Ex. 34,23) and cleave to Him – one has to walk, one has to go. One must 'go out of himself,' out of his earthiness; he must leave his father's home and all of his material possessions, and nullify himself totally before G-d. The idea is to leave oneself, lekh lekha, and instead, 'go to the land that I will show you.' We are always in search of some kind of permanence in this world – but the truth is that we are temporary..."
Rabbi Ezra Cohen | Heshvan 10 5783
How to Find Eretz Yisrael?
The Torah does not tell us how Avraham (then, Avram) knew where to go: north, south, east, or west?
Rabbi Yossef Carmel | Cheshvan 5 5783
The Aliya Test
Looking at a Rashi commentary on this week's Torah reading Lekh Lekha to reveal greater truth behind every single Aliyah story.
Baruch Gordon | Cheshvan 9 5782
A Conversation with Hasham
We recognize that in many ways our father Abraham is an innovator. we find that our father Abraham is also the first human being recorded as having a normal conversation with his Creator.
Rabbi Berel Wein | Cheshvan8 5782
How perfect were the matriarchs and patriarchs?
In an extraordinary series of observations on this week’s parsha, Ramban delivers harsh criticisms of Abraham and Sarah. What is deeply interesting about Ramban’s approach is his willingness to point out flaws in their behaviour.
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | Cheshvan 8 5782
The Chosen
Why God will never abandon the Jewish People.
Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair | Cheshvan 7 5782
Lech Lecha
Rabbi Berel Wein | Cheshvan 10 5781
Pay Now - or Pay Later
Rabbi Stewart Weiss | Cheshvan 10 5781
Changing a Name
Rabbi Stewart Weiss | Cheshvan 10 5781
The Seudah of a Bris
Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Cheshvan 9 5781
Who Were the Tower Builders? – part II
Rabbi Yossef Carmel | Cheshvan 8 5781
The Courage not to Conform
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | Cheshvan 7 5781
Judaism starts with the Land of Israel
Beyond the 4 Amot
In this week's Parasha, Hashem commands his first command to the first jew. The commandment is to move to the land of Israel.
Baruch Gordon | Cheshvan 10 5780