The Ancient Source of Jewish Resilience

by | Dec 19, 2024

Imagine being attacked and thrown into a pit by your brothers, sold off into slavery, your brothers pretend you’re dead, you become a slave in a foreign land, betrayed by your master’s wife-even though you did the right thing, you end up in prison betrayed again by...

The Beholder and the Beheld

by | Dec 10, 2020

Rav Mordechai Torczyner‏ Rosh Kollel YU TMT Zichron Dov, Toronto Click Here for the PDF version One form of beauty is external; the beholder is pleased, and responds positively. In one example, the Torah observes that Rachel is “of beautiful form and appearance”...

A Real Friend

by | Dec 19, 2019

In Parashat Vayeshev we are exposed to the condition of moral frailty.  At the opening of the parasha we find the children of Ya’akov struggling to get along. An unfortunate chapter in the forming of Yisrael that ultimately led to the most grotesque distortion of what...

Yosef & the Chashmonaim

by | Dec 26, 2017

Rav Ronen Neuwirth‏ Former Central Shaliach of Bnei Akiva in North America. Currently President of Ve’Ahavta – TLV Jewish Experience . . Yosef & the Chashmonaim   The story of Yosef is a classic story of a Jew struggling to overcome the dangerous...