Rabbi David Sabato
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Chaggai is the first prophet of the three prophets of the Second Temple – Chaggai, Zechariah and Malachi- who are called the “latter prophets”. The...
Rabbi David Sabato
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Following the prophecies of consolation and the description in the End of Days in Perek 4, Perek 5 includes four prophecies of consolation about the...
Rabbi David Sabato
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Perek 3 includes three prophecies of rebuke. Each of the prophecies is directed at a different social group which leads the nation and misuses its power....
Rabbi Ezra Bick
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Starting with this plague of locust, we find a noticeable stress on the comings and goings of Moshe, beyond merely as a necessary detail to explain where...
Rabbi Meir Spiegelman
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The Torah commands us to celebrate, for all generations, the day of our exodus from Egypt. When are we to celebrate this festival? It turns out that the...
Rabbi David Sabato
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Central to the prophecy of rebuke which appears in Chapter 12 are fraud and deception, which characterize the people’s actions in Hoshea’s time....
Rabbi David Sabato
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Michah prophesied to Israel and Judah in the second half of the eighth century BCE. He is the last of the “four prophets who prophesied at the same time”...
Rabbi Gad Eldad
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Commentators throughout the ages have struggled to understand the meaning of the exchange of Divine Names at the beginning of parshat Vaera, and the...
Rabbi Yehuda Rock
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The opening verse of our parasha is opaque and difficult to understand. The commentators have trouble with the factual assertion that "My Name Y-H-V-H I...
Rabbi Elchanan Samet
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Endless commentaries have attempted to explain the verse “And I appeared to Avraham, to Yitzchak and to Yaakov as Kel-Shakkai, but My name YKVK I did not...
