Shemot Rabbah (1:32) teaches that when Moshe lived in the palace, he observed that the Hebrew slaves had no opportunity for ...

Jewish academic and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster reflects on what the Exodus story can teach us in the face of another ...

From Parshat Bereishit, which describes the creation of the world in six days, we learn that God did not create a perfect world where humans could simply rest and do nothing. Upon completing the ...

We essentially came incredibly close to killing a sibling on a national level. Kayin and Hevel all over again. We hadn’t ...

This is full teshuvah (repentance) as defined by Rambam (Hebrew acronym for Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon AKA Maimonides): not just regret and confession (which the brothers engaged in when in prison ...

Some blessings are more glowing than others, but one thing is utterly clear in his words – Ya’akov knows his children and ...

Yosef and the Evil Eye At the end of the book of Bereishit, we have the blessings that Yaakov bestows on his sons before he ...

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The practice, not only on erev Yom Kippur but also on Friday nights, of blessing your children is taken from a source in this week’s parasha of Vayechi, when Yacov blessed his grandchildren.