Rick Lupert, a poet, songleader and graphic designer, is the author of 28 books including “God Wrestler: A Poem for Every ...

received a Torah in book form in 1984 burned to the ground. Pacific Palisades, one of our paradises, now a thing of the past. A new plague has blown into Southern California. I don’t know who Pharaoh ...

As we can see, this phrase has many parushim inside the Rishonim. We can connect all this with the beginning of the Parsha, where To Yaakov worried that if Binyamin travelled tragedy may ensue ...

In the redemption from this exile, which as we’ve seen previously is the paradigm for future redemption, each of these afflictions is reversed and overcome by direct Divine intervention. Rav Hirsch ...

Clearly, Jacob was deeply revered by the Egyptians. The Book of Genesis offers other examples of positive connections between the Patriarchs’ family and Egypt. Hagar, an Egyptian, chooses to ...