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Category Archives: Torah
This Week’s Torah Portion
I discuss the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and YouTube. This week’s parsha is Vayechi (Genesis 47:28-50:26). * This week’s parsha contains many verses on the death of Jacob. The … Continue reading
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Tagged bible god, hebrew bible, iambic pentameter, jewish community life, rabbs, weekly torah portion
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Jews Are A Merciful People
In a 1994 lecture on Gen. 50, Dennis Prager talked about verse 17: “And Joseph wept when they [his brothers] spoke to him.” Dennis: The rabbis taught in a midrash — “he who shows himself merciful to his fellow man … Continue reading
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Tagged abraham isaac, animal liberation, Dennis Prager, different cultures, fellow man, hebrew bible, jewish consciousness, Midrash, Rabbis
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The End Of Genesis
I discuss the parsha with Rabbi Rabbs Mondays at 7pm PST on my live cam. This week we talk about the Torah portion of Vayigash (Genesis 44:18-47:27). Video seven has been deleted because we said some things that were not … Continue reading
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Tagged divine status, faith in god, orthodox rabbi, parashat vayechi, rackman, sexual tension
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Yisroel Pensack: 40 Die in Chanukah Forest Fire in Israel in Country’s ‘Biggest and Deadliest’ Blaze
The New York Times reports: JERUSALEM — A fire raging in a northern Israel forest on Thursday has left at least 40 people dead, caused the evacuation of thousands of people, burned some kibbutz houses to the ground and prompted … Continue reading
Posted in Aish HaTorah, Circumcision, Greece, Israel, Judaism, New York Times, R. Ari Kahn, Sabbath, Torah, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged chanukah, fatal, forest fire, Givat Ze'ev, hebrew calendar, holy land, Jerusalem, Kislev, Nadav and Abihu, Rafi Alkaly, rosh chodesh, sons of Aaron, Syrian-Greek empire, Tevet
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