Weekly Parsha Thoughts

Parshas Lech Lecha starts off with Hashem telling Avraham, “Go away from your land…and I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great.” Rashi writes: Hashem tells Avraham you will be granted children and... Read More

The passuk states, “ויחל נח איש האדמה ויטע כרם.” Rashi writes that Noach made himself chulin, he should have been involved in planting something else first such as wheat for sustenance but not a grape-tree. The Kli Yakar points out that wine... Read More

The Gemara states that the Torah starts with chesed and ends with chesed. It starts with the chesed of Hashem clothing Adam and Chavah with כתנות עור and ends with the chesed of Hashem burying Moshe Rabeinu. We know that Hashem’s creating... Read More

The Rama brings that on Simchas Torah we make a mishteh, a seudah, in honor of finishing the Torah. One source for this is from a Midrash on Shir HaShirim which states: Hashem came to Shlomo HaMelech in Giveon in a dream... Read More

The pessukim state, “בסוכות תשבו שבעת ימים…למען ידעו דורותיכם כי בסוכות הושבתי את בני ישראל, in Sukkos you shall dwell for seven days…in order for your generations to know that I caused the Bnei Yisrael to dwell in Sukkos.” The Gemara writes... Read More

The Rama writes that one should not be cruel to not forgive someone unless he intends for the benefit of the one who seeks forgiveness. For example, if you will forgive him right away, he will then continue on with his habit... Read More