Parsha Hashavuah
Parshas Vayeishev - Crafty or Considerate?
When the brothers come to tell Yaakov that a tragedy has befallen Yosef, they present the bloody coat to him and Yehuda asks (37:32) "Haker na...", do you recog...
Parshas Vayeishev - In the Spotlight
We approach this Chanukah with conflicting emotions. On the one hand we identify with the battle of light against darkness, as the Chashmonaim fought against a...
Rabbi Shmuel Silber - Parsha Perspectives: Kisses and Connection (Vayeshev)
There is excitement in the air. The beautiful and holy Yom Tov of Chanukah is here. It is on this Yom Tov of Chanukah that we remember our brave ancestors who a...
Solving Sinat Chinam
After decades of struggles and challenges, in Parshat Vayeshev Yaakov Avinu aims to settle down and live peacefully. Instead, the conflict between Y...
Watch: Inside ArtScroll – Episode 4:18: Rabbi Daniel Glatstein - The Mystery of Rebbi Meir (Video)
In his new book, Rebbi Meir Baal HaNess and the Eternal Children of Hashem, Rabbi Daniel Glatstein welcomes us to the world of Rebbi Meir Baal HaNess, a place w...
Bring Your Shabbos Table Alive with Your Own Copy of ‘TableTalk’: Vayeishev 5784/2023
Baltimore, MD – Dec. 2023 - Every Shabbos table offers every Jewish family an incredible opportunity by which they can share their joy for Shabbos, for Yiddis...
Sivan Rahav-Meir / The Daily Portion / A Bar Mitzvah At 49 Years Of Age (Video)
"Shalom Sivan, We have already seen weddings happening during this war but the Bar Mitzvah of a 49-year-old we have yet to see.We are in a paratrooper unit tha...
TONIGHT: Tal U’matar Begins Tuesday Night, 12/5
Baltimore, MD - Dec. 4, 2023 - This year, we begin vesein tal umotor livracha in the bracha of Baraych Aleinu in Shmoneh Esray at Maariv of Tuesday, Decem...
Watch Rabbi Yonah Sklare on Parshas Vayaishev- Hamas Hostages in the Parsha (Video)
Rabbi Yonah Sklare is a Rosh Kollel in Baltimore, MD as well as Magid Shiur at Congregation Shomrei Emunah. His refreshingly creative approach to learning as we...
Sivan Rahav-Meir / The Daily Portion / Finding Strength On A Trip To London
After a day and a half with London’s Jewish community, the following are some of the memories I will take with me:* On the way there, Efrat the El Al flight a...
Chanukah, Hellenism, and Hamas
Jewish history isn't random. Selected to represent Hashem and inspire moral and religious spirit, our battles aren’t local and aren’t purely geopolitic...
Acheinu — How To Be Whole
This week’s parshah describes Yaakov arriving at Shechem “shaleim — whole.”[1] Rav YY Jacobson asks:[2] “What a gift it is — to be...
Sivan Rahav-Meir / The Daily Portion / Finding Strength From The Parshah
Here are two verses from this week’s Parshah - that can give us strength these days. This is how Yakov’s struggle with Esav is described:• And a man wrest...
Parshas Vayishlach - No More Running
This week's parsha contains the famous showdown (32:23-30) between Yaakov and the angel when Yaakov finds himself alone at night after having helped his fa...
Parshas Vayishlach - Rejoice Young Man, In Your Childhood
There is a holy teaching handed down from the great Chasidic master, Reb Zvi Hersh of Ziditchov, that when Yaakov appeals to Esav not to accompany him on his jo...
Parshas Vayishlach - Right to Left
Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State, died this past week on November 29th, 2023, at the age of 100. A fascinating story that took place many years a...
Rabbi Shmuel Silber - Parsha Perspectives: Space Between the Herds (Vayishlach)
So, he lodged there on that night, and he took from what came into his hand a gift for his brother Esau: Two hundred she goats and twenty he goats, two hundred ...
Watch: Let's Talk Kashrus - Kosher Menu At A Non-Kosher Venue (Video)
Have you ever been to a hotel for an event, or for a Shabbos program? Did you ever think of the details on how the kitchen becomes kosher? Kashering a non-koshe...
Parshas Vayishlach - Israel's Third Generation: Rising to the Challenge
Being part of the "third" generation is difficult. The first generation innovates. The second generation consolidates. The third generation often squanders the ...
Watch Rabbi Yonah Sklare on Parshas Vayishlach: Origins of the Hamas Monster (Video)
Rabbi Yonah Sklare is a Rosh Kollel in Baltimore, MD as well as Magid Shiur at Congregation Shomrei Emunah. His refreshingly creative approach to learning as we...
Sivan Rahav-Meir-/ The Daily Portion / To Hope For More, A Lot More
Shavua tov! Tonight, the words of Havdalah at the close of Shabbat shined with a new light: “For the Jewish people there was light and joy and gladness and ho...
Parshas Vayeitzei - Truth or Consequences
The Haftarah we read this week — according to Ashkenazic tradition — is taken from the Prophet Hoshea. The last nine verses of our Haftarah are the famous o...
Sivan Rahav-Meir / The Daily Portion / Don’t Let Shabbat Be Taken Captive Too
A good friend told me that when she heard about the timetable for the hostages’ release on Friday, she decided not to allow Hamas to take away her Shabbat, th...
Rabbi Shmuel Silber - Parsha Perspectives:Love and Loss (Vayetzei)
These are difficult days for Am Yisroel. These are inspiring days for Am Yisroel. At first glance these may seem like contradictory sentiments – but as we see...
Parshas Vayeitzei - The Tznius Confusion
Tucked away in this weeks Parsha, unbeknownst to many, is one of the chief M’koros the Gemara uses for the Mida of Tzn...
Watch Rabbi Yonah Sklare on Parshas Vayatza- Our Matzav in the Parsha (Video)
Rabbi Yonah Sklare is a Rosh Kollel in Baltimore, MD as well as Magid Shiur at Congregation Shomrei Emunah. His refreshingly creative approach to learning as we...
Bring Your Shabbos Table Alive with Your Own Copy of ‘TableTalk’: Vayeitzei 5784/2023
Baltimore, MD – Nov. 2023 - Every Shabbos table offers every Jewish family an incredible opportunity by which they can share their joy for Shabbos, for Yiddis...
Acheinu — One Rock, One People
Stone or Stones When Yaakov lay down to sleep at Har Hamoriyah, he placed multiple rocks around his head.[1] When he awoke, the Torah tells us that he used th...
Rain
In Eretz Yisroel they begin to say “vesen tal umatar” on zayin Cheshvan. In Chutz Le’Aaretz we begin saying “vesen tal umatar�...
Sivan Rahav-Meir / The Daily Portion / Our Enemies And Us
Two verses from the Torah portion we read on Shabbat morning explain concisely our way of acting in the world and, by contrast, the way of our enemies.The first...
Parshas Toldos - Clear as Day
Have you ever looked at an ice-cream cone and thought that it was a boa constrictor? Or maybe you’ve seen a dog and thought it was a pencil? Or perhaps you’...
Parshas Toldos - A Battle is Raging
Rivkah, concerned she has an errant child agitating in her womb, hurries to the Academy of Shem, hoping to solicit the prophet's help in gaining divine gui...
Parshas Toldos - The Nuts Can Fall Very Far From the Trees
Parshas Toldos presents us with one of the most difficult to understand and troubling narratives in the Torah. Yitzchak, Kadosh Lashem, was bound on a Miz...
Watch: Shiurei Sefer Yehoshua-Horav Michoel Sorotzkin #47 Shilo & Kedushas Eiver haYarden (Video)
השיעור נאמר והוקדש לזכרו ולעילוי נשמתו של הקדוש גלעד נחמיה בן יעקב ויהודית ניצן ז"ל שנו...
Parshas Chayei Sarah - Luxury Trash Bags
Just when you thought the world cannot stoop any lower… Balenciaga, a luxury fashion company, recently made headlines after launching the world’s m...
Parshas Chayei Sarah - Shalom Bayis
After Yitzchak takes Rivka for a wife, we are informed that Avraham remarried. (Chayei Sarah 25:1) The Pasuk states that his new wife’s name was �...
Rabbi Shmuel Silber - Parsha Perspectives: The Danger of Thought (Chayei Sarah)
And Sarah died in Kiryat Arba, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan, and Abraham came to eulogize Sarah and to bewail her. And Abraham arose from before his d...
Bring Your Shabbos Table Alive with Your Own Copy of ‘TableTalk’: Chayei Sara 5784/2023
Baltimore, MD – Nov. 2023 - Every Shabbos table offers every Jewish family an incredible opportunity by which they can share their joy for Shabbos, for Yiddis...
Parshas Chayei Sarah - He Who Laughs Last...
We are all still quite immersed in the confusions of emotions that our nation has been living through since the tragic events of Simchas Torah. We view videos ...
Watch: Rabbi Shmuel Silber and other Rabanim at All Daf Siyum on Seder Nashim in Bet Shemesh (Video)
Watch The All Daf siyum from Wed. November 1 0:00 Rabbi Moshe Schwed 8:49 Rabbi Shalom Rosner 26:49 Rabbi Yakkov Glasser 38:40 Introduction to Rabbi Sil...
Acheinu — Connecting To Our People
Death as Ingathering Whereas Lech Lecha and Vayera depict the lives of Avraham and Sarah, Chayei Sarah describes the transition from them to the next generatio...
Watch Rabbi Yonah Sklare Parshas Chayai Sarah: Living Out of Love (Video)
Rabbi Yonah Sklare is a Rosh Kollel in Baltimore, MD as well as Magid Shiur at Congregation Shomrei Emunah. His refreshingly creative approach to learning as we...
Parshas Vayeira - Not for Prophet
This week's shtikle, as per tradition for parshas Vayeria, is dedicated le'ilui nishmas my brother Efrayim Yechezkel ben ...
Parshas Vayeira - Will vs Want
Klal Yisroel is identified for its Mida of Chesed. We have numerous Mitzvos instructing us as to the high regard Hashem places on the Mida of Chesed. ...
Rabbi Shmuel Silber - Parsha Perspectives: Return Again (Vayera)
The joy was palpable. Avraham and Sarah were told they would be blessed with a son, and for the first time in many years, the future looked bright and optimisti...
Parshas Vayeira - The Moment of Truth
Many of us have grown up being taught about the contrast of the kindness, and compassion Avrohom Avinu felt for others — that compelled him to pray to G-d to ...
Sivan Rahav-Meir / The Daily Portion / Counting The Newborn Babies, Too
"Shalom Sivan, I am a midwife at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.On a difficult day in which we counted our fallen soldiers, I wanted to share anot...
