Vayigash: Judah's justified 'ingratitude'
Judah spoke harshly to Joseph. Why didn't he thank Joseph for his act of mercy, in reducing the sentence he had pronounced?
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Which is harder, the test of poverty or the test of wealth?
Jacob was faced with two diametrically opposed tests. He passed them both.
A paean of praise to our Matriachs, Sarah and Rivkah.
This Torah portion tells us that Abraham was blessed "with everything" and some commentators say that means having a daughter.
How could Abraham pray for the wicked people of Sodom?
Rabbi Dessler: If they were allowed to remain alive, they would surely continue to transgress.
Sukkah - the mitzva that does not make you 'empty pocketed'
The Gemara says that G-d tested the non-Jews with the mitzva of Sukkah, easy to keep because it does not involve monetary loss, And?
The wondrous two he-goats
Is atonement for sins between man and Hashem dependent on his having appeased his fellow man, for any sins against him?
'Remember us for life, O King who desires life!'
Since we are asking for the gift of ‘life’, our first obligation is that the ‘life’ we are asking for, should be the one Hashem ‘wants’
Ki Tavo: Bikkurim, the offering of our hands
The Torah stresses ‘the hands’ in the mitzva of Bikkurim, for a symbolic, moral and historic reason.
Why can't an Ammonite or Moabite be allowed to enter Am Yisrael for eternity?
Just how basic is 'hakarat hatov,' refraining from being an ingrate, in Judaism - and why?
The myth of the self-made man
It is in the nature of man, to think that by his strength and acumen, he has prospered - but that is hubris.
"Separating challah" - the women's mitzva that atones for the sin of the spies
Our Sages see this mitzva as a pre-condition’ to entering the Land,a contra to the spies who should have kissed its stones and thanked G-d.
To receive the Torah, be like a desert!
Mount Sinai was a humble mountain in a desolate desert. What does G-d's giving the Torah there try to tell us?
