Rabbi Menachem Leibtag
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Bnei Yisrael gloriously depart Egypt, expecting a short journey to the Land of Israel. To their surprise, they encounter instead situations of frightening...
Rabbi Yair Kahn
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The Torah draws a substantive connection between the commandment concerning the priestly service on Yom Kippur and the death of Aharon's sons. By...
Rabbi Meir Spiegelman
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During the plagues of blood and boils there is a collaboration between Moshe and Aharon, and there is some repetition in the command and fulfillment. It...
Rabbi Menachem Leibtag
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Already four hundred years before the Exodus, Pessah was celebrated in the city of Sdom! According to Rashi, Lot baked matzot, because his guests arrived...
Rabbi Elchanan Samet
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At the beginning of Parshat Vaera there is an interruption in the narrative of the Exodus process, and God delivers a speech. By closely examining this...
Rabbi Menachem Leibtag
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According to the popular Midrash, Bnei Yisrael had fallen to the 49th level of "tumah" (spiritual impurity) in Egypt. However, there appears to be no...
Rabbi Alex Israel
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Sefer Melakhim has little to say about the life of the last king of Yehuda, Tzidkiyahu. No specific happening or event that occurred during the first nine...
Rabbi Alex Israel
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The last four kings of Yehuda struggle under the crippling hegemony first of Egypt and then of Babylon, suffering military defeat, vassalage, humiliation...
Rabbi Alex Israel
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Yoshiyahu's dramatic religious revolution led him to two erroneous conclusions, giving him the confidence to confront Pharaoh Nekho who lead his army...
Rabbi Alex Israel
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Despite who is father and grandfather were, Yoshiyahu is unsurpassed as a champion of God worship, cleansing the kingdom of its idolatry and returning the...
