To Believe – Dovi Holtz

by | Dec 25, 2025

To Believe Dovi Holtz Former shaliach in London (2002 – 2003), and Memphis (2007 – 2009) Today a mechanech at the Moshe Sharett ORT school, Nof HaGalil Click for PDF For translation to Spanish and Português This week’s parsha provides us with a wealth of...

The Path of Menashe

by | Jan 2, 2025

Judah steps forward and speaks harshly to the ruler of Egypt, who is, in fact, Joseph. Rabbi Kook explains (Shemuot Ra’ayah, Parashat Vayeshev) that this harsh exchange represents a deep ideological dispute among the brothers. This conflict began before Joseph...

When Being Right is Wrong

by | Dec 23, 2020

  Rabbi Dov Zemel Former Rosh Kollel in Atlanta 2002-2006, Currently Customer Service Manager at Vernet Technologies and Rebbe at Yeshivat Migdal HaTorah Click Here for the PDF version   Our parsha this week, Vayigash, culminates the story of Yosef’s deception of...

Why are we called YEHUDIM?

by | Jan 7, 2020

In the beginning of this week’s Parsha we have the dramatic scene where Yehuda approaches Yosef (Bereishit 44:18): “וַיִּגַּ֨שׁ אֵלָ֜יו יְהוּדָ֗ה וַיֹּ֘אמֶר֘ בִּ֣י אֲדֹנִי֒ יְדַבֶּר נָ֨א עַבְדְּךָ֤ דָבָר֙ בְּאָזְנֵ֣י אֲדֹנִ֔י וְאַל יִ֥חַר אַפְּךָ֖ בְּעַבְדֶּ֑ךָ כִּ֥י...

Leadership – Privilege or Responsibility? 5779

by | Dec 13, 2018

Leadership – Privilege or Responsibility? By Rabbi Jonathan Ziring  Former Sgan Rosh Beit Midrash (Toronto, 2015-18) Currently Ra”m at Yeshivat Migdal HaTorah, Modiin “And when the money gave out in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians...

Asara b’Tevet

by | Dec 17, 2018

Rabbi Menachem Leibtag Ram in Yeshivat Har Etzion Source sheets #1 Source sheets #2 Asara b’Tevet

Vayigash

by | Dec 26, 2017

Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger Executive Director and Community Rabbinic Scholar of Dallas Kollel  .   We’ve all heard the expression “it takes one to know one”. Sometimes it is used to refer to what psychologists call projection. The meaning is that people who possess...