When the three travelers, angels in disguise, came to visit Abraham, the ailing patriarch chose to disrupt a conversation with God in order to greet them (Gen. 18:1-2).

Success! We all want it and seek numerous ways to attain that promised word! Our desire for it has spawned a newly minted genre.

“And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem… and the Lord appeared to Abraham and said: To your seed will I give this land; and he built there an altar unto the Lord who appeared to him” (Gen. 12:6-7). Why was it necessary to say “who appeared to him”?

What does Hashem have against skyscrapers?

Bereshit is the scariest parsha in the Torah. It creates responsibility and frames our life’s mission.

For most, it remains an enigma. We say it; it seems like it fits – but one suspects that we are essentially clueless (an admitted projection) to its Sukkos significance...I refer to the strange recitation at the end of our bentsching, (grace after meals) where we customarily insert a special request throughout Sukkos...

Perhaps the greatest Jewish storyteller of all time, the Dubner Maggid was once asked: Why do we celebrate both Simchat Torah (the completion of the annual Torah cycle) and Shavuot (commemorating the Sinai revelation of the Torah)?

I hope we read Haazinu this Shabbos and next Shabbos and the Shabbos after that.