Torah

The sedra starts with 'come to pharoh because I have hardened his heart.' Wouldn't it have been better to say 'go' rather than 'come.' And why is the hardening of the heart a reason to go, surely it's a reason to not bother?! ;The word 'oilam' comes from the word 'ne'elom', which means hidden, or...

In Parshas Shemos, the Degel Machaneh Ephraim taught that a person should elevate the machshavos zaros (strange and evil thoughts) that come to him. Regarding this topic, one commenter asked how we should practically go about elevating these thoughts. ;Last night, I learned a shtickel of Degel Ma...

"God's angel appeared to Moses in the heart of a fire, in the midst of a thorn-bush." (Ex. 3:2) ;Why did God choose a sneh, a thorn-bush to reveal Himself to Moses? ;A Cure for Fever ;The Talmud (Shabbat 67a) prescribes a peculiar procedure for those suffering from a high fever. The patient is ad...

There are three areas of Tahara that we need to work on. 1) guarding the mouth 2) guarding the eyes and 3) guarding the bris. The Chida says this is hinted to in the posuk ;"Odom le'amal yulad." "Amal" stands for Ayin, ;Ma'or, Lashon. It says in Seforim Hakdoshim that the main effort needs to...

; "Ubnei Yisrael paru vayishritzu vayirbu vyatsmu." The passuk uses many terms to describe Bnei Yisrael's growth. The Bostoner Rebbe zt"l, Reb Levi Yitzchak Howoritz, in his sefer Shaar Levi, asks: Why does the passuk need to describe this so deeply, to go so far as to use the word "vayishritzu,...

Lama harei'osa la'am hazeh ki may'az basi ledaber bishmecha hayra la'am hazehThe Midrash gives a ;mashal ;ofto a king whose subjects acted disrespectfully to him and incurred his wrath. ;The king's faithful minister, seeing how angry he was at the people, went and slighted the king's honor in som...

Hashem tells Moshe rabbainu ; ; ; Tell the yidden pakod pakaditi ; ; ; Zuggt rashi ; ; ; This was a mesora that the eventual savior ; ; ; will say the code words pakod pakadti ; ; ; we are all in mitzrayim ; ; ; Metzer yam ; ; ; we are all enslaved and ; ; ; we serve our different levels ...

Hashem says to Moshe Rabeinu, “Tell the Yidden, my name is “Eh-yeh asher Eh-yeh” - I will be with them during this golus, and I will be with them during future goluyos. And Moshe complained “Why mention future problems. Enough to deal with those when they arrive.” And Hashem agreed, “Just tell th...

There are no stories in the Torah for story's sake. So if the Torah tells us ויקם מלך חדש אשר לא ידע את יוסף, the Torah is teaching us a lesson. The meforshim explain that each Yid has his own personal obligation to go from מצרים. That is we each have little of מצרים within us. Yosef essentially ...

I want to try to clarify some of the fundamental differences between the Torah approach and other approaches. I do not want to discuss any particular approach. I only want to try to add clarity to what the Torah approach is. ;The things I discuss may or may not be contrary to any particular appro...