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Shabbat Shalom Parsha Articles

November 04, 2009
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).

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October 27, 2009
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.

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October 27, 2009
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”?

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October 22, 2009
Noach: The Name is the Game
Rabbi Asher Brander

What does Hashem have against skyscrapers?

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October 15, 2009
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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September 29, 2009
Sukkot: A Sukkah Life
Rabbi Asher Brander

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...

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September 29, 2009
Simchat Torah: The Secret of Our Eternity
Rabbi Asher Brander

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)?

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September 22, 2009
Haazinu: The Rock
Rabbi Asher Brander

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

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