Beit Midrash

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    Shmot

    What is the provenance & power of moshe's staff?

    Rabbi Stewart Weiss | 14 Shvat 5784
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    Shmot

    The roller-coaster ride

    Rabbi Stewart Weiss | 14 Shvat 5784
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    Covenant & Conversation

    The Challenge of Jewish Leadership

    Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | 14 Shvat 5784
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    Parashat Hashavua

    What’s in a Name? – About Shem, Sham, and Makom

    Rabbi Yossef Carmel | 13 Shvat 5784
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    Shmot

    A Rishon Letzion Named Rapaport

    Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 13 Shvat 5784
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    Shmot

    The Dual Message of the Tribal Names

    Rabbi Mordechai Hochman | 24 Tevet 5784
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    Shmot

    The Jewish Mother

    As we begin the Book of Exodus in our public Torah readings this coming Shabbat, the Torah tells us that Pharaoh wished to destroy the Jewish Nation even in the maternity wards. He instructed the Jewish midwives, Shifra and Puah, to kill all Jewish male babies, and to allow only the girls to live. However, the Torah tells us, "The midwives feared G-d, and did not do what Pharaoh had told them, and rather let the babies live" (Ex. 1,16). The Midrash asks: "Is it not obvious, if they did not listen to Pharaoh, that they allowed the babies to live? Why must the Torah specify this?" The Midrash answers that the verse offers praise-within-praise to Shifra and Puah...

    Rabbi Moshe Leib Halberstadt | Tevet 20 5783
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    Shmot

    What is the provenance & power of Moshe’s staff?

    Rabbi Stewart Weiss | Tevet 5783
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    Shmot

    Say My Name, Say My Name

    Rabbi Stewart Weiss | Tevet 5783
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    Parashat Hashavua

    Interactions between Yehuda and Yosef over the Generations

    In Sefer Bereishit, the struggle for leadership is between the half-brothers Yosef and Yehuda. Shemot starts with a new chapter in the national story, as Egypt goes from a king who was very close to Yosef to one who did not recall Yosef.

    Rabbi Yossef Carmel | Tevet 5783
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    Shmot

    The Divine hand

    All of life is a mystery and certainly the Jewish story remains in its base an inexplicable one.

    Rabbi Berel Wein | Tevet 5783
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    Shmot

    Turning Curses into Blessings

    Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | Tevet 5783
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    Shmot

    Jewish Idealism

    There were Jews who were willing to cooperate with the governmental authorities in policing the Jewish slave society. Eventually, these Jews also found themselves to be the victims of the Pharaoh and his cruel decree.

    Rabbi Berel Wein | Tevet 19 5782
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    Shmot

    On Not Obeying Immoral Orders

    The opening chapters of Exodus plunge us into the midst of epic events. Yet it is one small, often overlooked episode that deserves to be seen as a turning-point in the history of humanity. Its heroines are two remarkable women, Shifra and Puah.

    Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | Tevet 19 5782
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    Shmot

    Reluctant Heroes & Jewish History

    But is this really Moshe? Does the great defender of Israel – humble as he may surely be – not want to help save Am Yisrael from their dreadful plight?! It almost seems that Moshe is more concerned for himself than for us!

    Rabbi Stewart Weiss | Tevet 19 5782
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    Parashat Hashavua

    As a Hammer Smashes Rock

    Why are so many elements in Tanach only clarified by connecting different sections of Biblical text? We should understand that all of Tanach is one book, which is composed of 24 sub-books.

    Rabbi Yossef Carmel | Tevet 17 5782
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    The Israeli State and Goverment

    The Value of Nationhood

    Translated by Hillel Fendel

    In the Book of Shmot, we are no longer individuals, as in Breishit, but rather begin to appear in history as a Nation. Why is a national framework so critical?

    Rabbi Haggai Lundin | Sivan 14 5781
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    One People, One Voice

    Rabbi Stewart Weiss | Tevet 23 5781
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    Shmot

    Shemot

    Rabbi Berel Wein | Tevet 22 5781
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    Covenant & Conversation

    Women as Leaders

    Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | Tevet 19 5781
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