by שמואל פליישר | Dec 15, 2021
miketz 5782 – english
by אור איתן עיני | Dec 17, 2020
Or-Eitan Ainie Former Shaliach, Montreal (2019-2020) Currently a bio technology student at BIU and an Avrech at Kollel Rechovot Click Here for the PDF version Our parasha is one of the most interesting parashot in the torah. The parasha starts and finishes in the...
by Dani Eisenstock | Dec 26, 2019
Parshat Miketz is always read on Chanukah. What is the connection between our parsha and the Holiday of Chanukah? Our parsha starts off in darkness and ends in darkness. At the beginning of the parsha, Yossef Hatzadik is stuck in prison. The brothers sold him down...
by Arik Speaker | Dec 9, 2018
Who’s the boss? By Arik Speaker Head of the International Mechina, World Bnei Akiva “Power to the people” or “G-d save the Queen”? The question of how much power to give to the rulers – may it be a single absolute monarch or a democratically elected...
by Rabbi Ronen Neuwirth | Dec 26, 2017
Rabbi Ronen Neuwirth Former Central Shaliach of Bnei Akiva in North America. Currently President of Ve’Ahavta – TLV Jewish Experience Between Hasmonean and Modern-Orthodoxy We tend to perceive the struggle against the Greeks as a cultural war. The Greeks...
by Rabbi Yisrael Krengel | Dec 10, 2015
Rav Yisrael Krengel Former Rosh Kollel Johannesburg (2002-3) The ups and downs of life affect us all, both on an individual level and a national one. We all know how to respond to the ups, the question is how we approach and respond to the downs. We can glean...
by Daphna Kannai | Dec 10, 2015
Daphna Kannai Former Rosh Beit Midrash in Memphis (2005-2008) From the Failure of “Go now and see to your brothers’ welfare” to the success of “God will give an answer [that will bring] peace to Pharaoh” “I have dreamed a...
by Torah Mitzion Admin | Mar 31, 2015
Parshat Mikeitz is nearly always read on Shabbat Chanukah, and Chazal identified many connections between the parsha and the festival. For example, the first pasuk states: “And it was at the end of two full years (shnatayim)…” (Breishit 41:1) The word...
by Rabbi Yossi Slotnick | Mar 31, 2015
Rabbi Yossi Slotnick Former Rosh Kollel in Cape Town (1997-1998) At the end of parshat Vayeshev, we hear Yosef’s request of the royal butler: “But remember me with you when it will be well with you, and please do kindness with me and mention me to...
by Rabbi Yonatan Blass | Mar 31, 2015
Rabbi Yonatan Blass After they fail to recognize him, Joseph accuses his brothers of being spies: “You are spies, to see the nakedness of the land you have come” (Bereishit 42:9). Hidden in this accusation, writes the Shelah Hakadosh, is a reference to the...
