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Shabbat Shalom Parsha Articles  Toldot: Finding the Neshama Tehora Rabbi Asher Brander Here's a strange question. Did Yitzchak love Yaakov? Read this pasuk carefully and you’ll understand my problem. "Yitzchak loved Eisav because he placed game in his mouth and Rivkah loves Yaakov."  Chayei Sarah: Gray Matter Rabbi Asher Brander In our shul (and I suspect in many others) the Artscroll siddur gray box is well known to many. I have often thought that much of the living breathing Torah operates in the gray box...  Youthful Exuberance and the Wisdom of Experience Rabbi Yitzchak Blau Sarah’s biblical epitaph enumerates the years of her life in an unusual fashion, with the word “years” repeated three times: “one hundred years and twenty years and seven years” (Genesis 23:1).  Kindness At All Costs Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik 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).  Lech Lecha: For the Love of God Rabbi Asher Brander Success! We all want it and seek numerous ways to attain that promised word! Our desire for it has spawned a newly minted genre.  Finding the Holy Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik “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”?  Noach: The Name is the Game Rabbi Asher Brander What does Hashem have against skyscrapers?  Bereshit: Scary but Special Rabbi Asher Brander Bereshit is the scariest parsha in the Torah. It creates responsibility and frames our life’s mission. |
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