“Tzohar Ta’aseh La’teivah” Make a tzohar for the ark. Rashi “Yesh Omrim Chalon” There are those who say it is a window. Bereishis 6:16 Many wonderful shuls are blessed to be in scenic locations, and often have large windows that...
How can we “extend a hand” even when we are frustrated? After the conclusion of the Flood, Noach needed a way to determine how far the waters had receded. Enter the dove. Or more precisely, exit the dove....
Parashat Noach tells the famous story of Noach, the lone righteous person in a corrupt, sinful generation, and who was thus saved by the flood which G-d brought upon the earth by constructing an ark as G-d had...
Back to Bereishis. Last Shabbos, we rolled the Sefer Torah to the very beginning. We began a new cycle of weekly Torah readings. The Midrash teaches, Shivim panim laTorah, there are seventy faces to...
As the flood waters recede, Noach opens the window of the ark and sends out the raven, which “kept going and returning until the waters dried from upon the earth.” It would seem as if the raven did its...
Coming off a joyous Simchas Torah, the excitement of the Yom Tov heightened with gratitude for the return of the twenty living hostages, I turned on my phone after Havdalah, eager to see more pictures of reunions and...
This week’s Torah portion takes us to the first communist regime in history, revealing how such systems gradually, and with great cunning, take shape. The story unfolds some time after the Flood, as the world begins to...
And G-d made the beasts of the earth according to their kind and the cattle according to their kind, and all the creeping things of the ground according to their kind, and G-d saw that it was good. Bereishis...
First things first Parshas Bereishis is all about the beginnings: First creation, first light, first day, first person, first commandment, and of course, first sin. After blessing mankind to be fruitful, Hashem gives Adam his first official mitzvah....
At a black-tie affair, all the guests are wearing tuxedos or expensive gowns. They all look pretty much the same. But there are two groups of people at this affair. One group, when they go home, hang...