Etz B'ney Yosef

What was YHVH’s purpose for bringing the Israelites to Mount Sinai?   Without understanding His reason for revealing Himself to His people t...

“Beyond the mountain”. There are several thoughts that come to mind in regards to this concept.  The first of these concerns the sequence o...

Shalom Fellow Israelite, In the early nineties we joined a local congregation in the town where we were living at the time.   At one poi...

We do not generally envision the poor enslaved Israelites in Egypt to have been at fault for their hard conditions, nor do we attribute th...

The prophet Daniel (in the 6 th  century B.C) foresaw the rise of the Greek empire, its ultimate division into four parts and especially...

Having had a background in botany, I learned in higher education (that is growing up on a farm) that roots grow mostly underground and can...

Parashat Bresheet ends with enumerating mankind’s genealogies, as well as with a preamble to the next episode, that is to Parashat Noach...