Category: Jews

  • Shabbat is Holier than the Tabernacle

    The pasha ends with an admonishment to the Jews that the observance of Shabbat overrides the building of the Tabernacle. This is to teach us that as important as the Tabernacle was, without observance of Shabbat it is meaningless.

  • Getting Egypt Out of the Jews

    More important that getting the Jews out of Egypt was to get Egyptian culture out of the Jews. God wanted the Jews to be a moral and ethical people and to reject the immorality of Egypt.

  • God Wants Action From Us

    The reason for the Pascal Sacrifice before the plague of the killing of the first born was that God wanted to see that the Jews were willing to take action for their freedom.

  • The True Plague of Darkness

    The plague of darkness was much more than three days of darkness. According to the Torah, Egypt was a land of darkness while the Jews, if they follow the Torah are in light.

  • Freedom Means Responsibility

    A free person has to be responsible with his time. A slave does not. That is the reason that the first commandment is declaring the new month. The Jews were being freed for a purpose.

  • Preparing for Freedom

    The purpose of freeing the Jews from slavery was that they should be a Godly people. This is expressed through the commandment of declaring the new month. God is setting the people up to be a nation.

  • True Brotherly Love

    When Moses arrived back to Egypt his brother, Aaron, greeted him with love and happiness. Aaron was the older brother and had been in Egypt for all the years that Moses was away. Instead of being jealous he was overjoyed for his brother.

  • Don’t Be A Frog

    The Jews were not enslaved all at once. It was a step-by-step process. First special taxes were levied on them. Slowly more and more of their freedom was taken away until they suddenly realized that they were enslaved.

  • Joseph’s Message to Jacob

    When Jacob was told that Joseph was alive, he did not believe it until he saw the wagons. Why did they make a difference?

  • Every Jew Has Value

    פרשת וזאת הברכה / א’ דחול המואד סוכות / י”ז בתשרי תשפ”ג

    The lesson of Sukkot is that every person has value, no matter how high or low that person may be. We all equal in God’s eye.