י״ט מרחשון ה׳תשפ״ז | October 29, 2026 A joyous Hachnosas Sefer Torah was held at Yeshivas Tzeirei Hashluchim in Tzfas, as a new Sefer Torah was welcomed into the yeshiva’s beis medrash. The celebration began with the completion of the…
The biblical figure Adam often gets a bad rap. This is understandable. In the creation story in the Book of Genesis, the first man and his wife, Eve, disobey God by eating the fruit of the one tree that God…
By Rav Aharon Kotler zt”l Translated by Rabbi Yair Hoffman [Shavuos is when we received the Torah, the greatest thing that ever happened to Klal Yisroel. The worst thing that can happen to us, therefore, is a diminishment of…
This week’s Torah portion is Vayera: Genesis 18:1 — 22:24 Every rabbi’s child knows the sound of a car pulling out of the driveway. Twice in this week’s parshah, someone asks ayeh, meaning “where.” The first time, three strangers have just eaten at…
‘Vayera’ (‘And G-d appeared …’ Genesis 18-22:24) is the fourth Torah portion in Genesis. It is filled with foundational narratives of divine revelation, radical hospitality, moral argument and supreme testing. The key themes are first of all, Abraham’s hospitality. Although G-d ‘appears…
By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D., in El Cajon, California It is easy to become so absorbed in our own responsibilities that we overlook opportunities to help others. Do we make time for someone who is lonely? Listen patiently to a struggling…
Abraham sits at the entrance of his tent, God appears and then, Abraham is compelled to look up. Three strangers approach, supposedly angels of God. Abraham runs towards them. However, later in the story, when Abraham is about to take…
And it shall be forgiven them; for it is ignorance. (Numbers 15:25) Because of our ignorance we are not fully aware of our sins of ignorance. Yet we may be sure they are many, in the form both of commission and…
The parsha begins on a hot, lazy afternoon in Mamre, which if you want to locate it on a map, is roughly the fifth oak tree south of Hebron in Canaan. Abraham looks up and finds three men standing outside…
Wednesday, October 28th | 17 Heshvan 5787 On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Gander was a quiet town of fewer than 10,000 people on the island of Newfoundland, best known, if it was known at all, for an airport that had once been a major refueling…
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