Ani Yosef…I am Joseph
Ani Yosef…I am Joseph Joseph Wept – Part One Part of an ongoing series entitled Hidden Sparks Beneath the Surface ...
Ani Yosef…I am Joseph Joseph Wept – Part One Part of an ongoing series entitled Hidden Sparks Beneath the Surface ...
By Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum Torah Reading: SHEMOS Exodus 1:1-6:1; Haftara: Isaiah 27:6-28:13, 29:22-23 (Sephardi ritual: Jeremiah 1:1-2:3). “AND THESE ARE THE NAMES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL”: ISRAEL ON THE WORLD STAGE With the beginning...
By Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum Torah Reading: VAYECHI Gen. 47:28-50:26 AND JACOB LIVED. “And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years” (Gen. 47:28). These were “good” years (17 is the gematria of TOV...
By Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum Torah Reading PINCHAS, Numbers 25:10-30:1 PINCHAS, PRINCE OF PEACE “Pinchas son of Elazar son of Aaron the Priest turned away My wrath from upon the Children of Israel in his...
In the Hebrew Bible, manna is described twice: once in Exodus 16:1–36 with the full narrative surrounding it, and once again in Numbers 11:1–9 as a part of a separate narrative. In the description...
Rabbi Kamir Ingber brings down a great shiur on this weeks parashat Bamidbar. This lecture is about, how important it is that we recognize our individuality in relationship with G-D.
UNIVERSAL TORAH: BAMIDBAR By Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum Torah Reading: Numbers 1:1-4:20 Haftara: Hosea 2:1-22. IN THE WILDERNESS It was fitting that the Giving of the Torah took place in no-man’s-land amidst the stark desolation...
by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum Torah Reading: Parshas EMOR, Leviticus 21:1-24:23 SAY TO THE PRIESTS As discussed in Universal Torah #20 TETZAVEH, the Torah conception of the priests and their relationship with the people is radically...
Lessons for Humanity by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum Torah Reading: Leviticus 1:1-5:26 AND G-D SPOKE TO HIM FROM THE TENT OF MEETING The last five parshahs of the Book of Exodus explained the form of the...
By Rav Kook The Midrash (Shemot Rabbah 23:15) makes a startling claim about the Israelites who witnessed the splitting of the Red Sea: “Come and see how great were those who crossed the Sea....
Vayigash Torah Reading: VAYIGASH Gen. 44:18-47:27. “AND JUDAH STEPPED FORWARD.” The key to the dramatic encounter between Judah and Joseph with which our parshah of VAYIGASH begins is to be found in the Haftara our...
VAYISHLACH Torah reading: Gen. 32.4-36.43 Further materials by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum relating to this and the ensuing parshahs about Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, can be found in EARTH & SPIRIT THE ENCOUNTER WITH ESAU...