Parashat Vaera begins with Hashem’s response to Moshe Rabbenu, who, in the final pesukim of last week’s parashah, expressed his angst over the plight of Beneh Yisrael in Egypt. Hashem had sent him to Pharoah to demand that...
The plague of Hail is foretold in this week’s parsha with the following words: “Behold at this time tomorrow I shall rain a very heavy hail, such as there has never been in Egypt, from the day it...
In the parshios that we are reading these days, we learn about arguably the greatest person to ever live, Moshe Rabbeinu. Did you ever wonder why we call him Moshe Rabbeinu and not the more customary sequence, Rabbeinu Moshe,...
The Kamarna (Heichal HaBrachah Vayechi) writes, “I heard my Rebbe say to someone, “Accept everything that happens to you with love, and then you will have both Olam HaZeh and Olam Haba.” The man replied that he will daven to have the...
My wife purchased French fries from a pizza store and put them in the refrigerator. When I came home, she said dinner would be leftovers. I combined various fleishig foods with the French fries...
In the opening verses of Parashat Vaera, we find Hashem’s pronouncement of the “Arba Leshonot Geula” – “four expressions of redemption.” He told Moshe to convey to Beneh Yisrael His promise that He will “take you from...
This Shabbos, Shabbos Mevorchim, we bless the oncoming month of Shevat. Shevat, spelled Shin-Beis-Tes, is often read as an acronym for “She’nishma Besoros Tovos, May we hear good news. A much needed bracha during these unsettling,...
Three Boys Three boys are in the schoolyard bragging of how great their fathers are. The first one says: “Well, my father runs the fastest. He can fire an arrow, and start to run, I tell you, he gets...
While returning to school from a class trip, a third-grade student from Yeshivat Noam in Paramus was severely injured when a rock was thrown at her school bus on the New Jersey Turnpike. As the buses traveled near the...
One of the greatest heavenly gifts bestowed upon our generation is the emergence of an extraordinary talmid chacham who possesses a comprehensive mastery of the entire Torah—Tanach, Mishnah, Gemara with all its commentaries, Rishonim and Acharonim, halachah, Kabbalah, Chassidut, and far...