Leave Behind Complexity
“You shall safeguard the matzot, for on this very day I will have taken your legions out of the land of Egypt; you shall observe this day for your generations as an eternal decree. In the first, on the fourteen...
Breaking Out of Idolatry
The culture of Egypt had dominated the world, casting its dark and oppressive shadow over all of civilization while abandoning the hope for any ethical or moral progress. Ancient Egyptian philosophy pictured li...
Liberation is Now
“The King of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the first was Shifrah and the name of the second was Puah – and he said, ‘When you deliver the Hebrew women, and you see them on the birth sto...
These are the Tribes of Israel
“All these are the tribes of Israel – twelve – and this is what their father spoke to them and he blessed them; he blessed each according to his appropriate blessing.” (BEREISHIT 49:28)
Just prior to his pas...
Redeeming Yosef
“Yosef recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.” (BEREISHIT 42:8)
On this verse, the Gaon Rabbi Eliyahu of Vilna explains:
“This is one of Yosef’s attributes. Not just in his generation but in...
Hanukah – A War for Liberation
For an entire generation, the ancient Judeans waged a struggle for freedom, which, in terms of intensity, has almost no parallel in human history. It was among the first recorded wars of liberation and it laid ...
Parshat Vayeishev – From Darkness to Light
Our Sages explain human history to be characterized by the incessant struggle between good and evil. The Kadosh Barukh Hu places forces of darkness into our world as an essential ingredient to enable free will ...