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Hi everyone, I hope this helps you go into your Shabbos more prepared and I hope you learn something new! This week’s Parsha is called Parshas Chaya Sarah (CHAH-YAY SUH-RUH.) The life of Sarah. In an ironic beginning Sarah (Sara) dies at the age of one hundred twenty seven. After Sarah’s death Avraham now wanted to marry off his son Yitzchak (Isaac.) We learn in the passuk that Avraham calls to his servant Eliezer, and tells him to go to the land of Canaan, which was Avraham’s childhood home. A very obvious question could be asked here before learning any further. We know that one of the reasons Avraham moved away from there was because the people worshiped Avodah Zarah (Idolatry,) so why in the world would Avraham want a wife for his son that comes from a place that practices things that he himself despises? I saw a beautiful answer in a sefer called, “Lilmoad U’lamad” written be R’ Mordechai Katz zt”l. He answers like this, Avraham clearly knew all of the bad things about that p

Hi everyone, I hope this helps you go into your Shabbos more prepared and I hope you learn something new! This week’s Parsha is called, Parshas Vayera. Parshas Vayera tells over the story of the Akadas Yitzchak (AH-KAY-DAS YI-TZU-CHAH-CK). The Akadas Yitzchak is a very import and well known story that goes like this: Hashem tells Avraham Avinu (Abraham our forefather) go to Mount Moria (Moh-ree-uh) and “Take your son, your only son, the one you love, Isaac….) and offer him as a sacrifice to me. So Avraham did exactly as G-d had told him to and he took Yitzchak (Isaac) to Mount Moria. When Avraham told his thirty seven year old son Yitzchak that he was going to schecht (Yiddish for slaughter,) him, Yitzchak didn’t even question his father, he just did as he said. And Avraham didn’t even tell him that Hashem gave the command. So, they arrived where Hashem had commanded Avraham to take his son to, and Avraham built a Mizbayach (alter) there. Yitzchak in an unbelievable act of loyalty te

THIS WEEK'S D'VAR TORAH SHOULD GIVE THE NISHAMA OF, MIRIAM GITAL BAS AVIGDOR   AN ALIYA! Hi everyone, I hope this helps you go into your Shabbos more prepared and I hope you learn something new! This week's Parsha is called Parshas Lech Lecha (LE-CH LI-CHUH.) In this week's Parsha Hashem (G-d) tells Avraham or Abraham in the first passuk, "Lech Lecha Ma'artzecha" (Go for yourself from your land.) Rabbeinu Shlomo Yitzchaki or Rashi says that when Hashem said "LICHA" for you or for yourself, means literally for your own benefit and good. Rashi asks then, what is this benefit and good Avraham will derive from leaving his home land to go to a strange land that G-d told him to go to? The following passuk answers the question with, "And there I, Hashem, will make you into a great nation... for here you will not merit to have any children, but there you will merit to. And there you will become famous, but here you will not. When Hashem tel

Hi everyone, I hope this helps you go into your Shabbos more prepared and I hope you learn something new! This week’s Parsha is Parshas Noach (Noah.) The first passuk in this week’s Pasha says, “These are the offspring of Noah - Noah was a righteous man, perfect in his generations...” There is a very obvious question that needs to be asked here, the question is, why does the passuk start off by saying “These are the offspring of Noah…” and immediately say, “Noah was a righteous man...”? And not only does it NOT answer the question right then and there, but rather it answers the question after the passuk finishes describing how big of a tzadik (righteous man), he was? I saw a wonderful answer in the Artscroll’s Chumash commentary, that said the reason why the passuk did not go on to name Noah's children is because there is a medrish that says that a tzadik’s (righteous person’s) essential or primary “children” are his character traits and good deeds. In other words, the good dee