Parashat Shemot: Compassion and respect for others
Parashat Shemot, which opens the second book of the Torah, recounts the suffering of the Israelites in Egypt. After years of ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency3 年
Is your name on this list? Your Jewish roots might be in Cairo, Baghdad or nearby
Rabbi Shlomo Bekhor Husin of Baghdad documented the exemptions, carefully jotting each down name in medieval Rashi script. In the following decades, many of those names vanished or morphed as ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs1 个月
Rabbi Pinto reveals the secret: How to achieve true serenity in life
The opening verse of Parashat Vayeshev raises a profound question, explains Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto: What is the essence of serenity? Rashi teaches us that Jacob sought peace and tranquility ...
sdjewishworld4 天
Never Stop Questioning the Whyfors of Biblical Expression
It is not necessary. The Torah could have just said that These Israelites came to Egypt. Again, this is the ancient writing style. However, Rashi followed Rabbi Akiva’s mindset, who said that the ...
来自MSN1 个月
If Esau could have met Rabbi Zvi Kogan z”l
Rabbi Zvi wasn’t just anyone ... From the womb, Jacob was righteous, Esau, wicked. Rashi, the most influential medieval commentator, describes how their distinct natures became evident as ...
Arutz Sheva22 天
The secret of Hanukkah in the promise to Aharon HaKohen
Rabbi Yossi Urimis a Torah Mitzion graduate from ... so he made the menorah." Rashi explains the juxtaposition of the section on the menorah to the section on the offerings of the princes ...