Thoughts for Asara B'Tevet 5786

Vayechi | David's Last Words: Moral Complexity and Leadership

Vayechi | Yaakov's Deathbed Charge

Vayigash | 5786 | And I Will Make Them One Nation

Vayigash | "And Yosef Could No Longer Restrain Himself"

Mitzvat Chanuka | A Fresh Look at the "Beraitot" of Chanuka

Vayeshev 5786 | For Three Transgressions of Yisrael

Vayeshev | The Apocrypha and the Midrash

Two Giants, One Vision: The Legacy of Rav Aharon Lichtenstein and Rav Yehuda Amital zt"l

Vayishlach | 5786 | Thus says the Lord God Concerning Edom

Vayishlach | Hegemonism or Conquest?

Vayetze | Back to Gerar (The Parenthetic Statement)

And Thou Knowest No God but Me | Vayetze | 5786

Yet I Love Yaakov. And I Hated Esav | Toldot | 5786

Toldot | The Gerar Conundrum

Chayei Sara | Ketura and the Sons of the East

Now King David was Old | Haftara | Chayei Sara | 5786

Lekh Lekha | Avraham's Early Years: The Genesis of Midrashic Visions

Noach | "My Covenant"

Should You Make a Berakha on Seeing the Freed Hostages