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Yosef was a most charismatic person. He was young, attractive and as the Torah tells us on three occasions, he was an ish mazleach, a successful man. His rise to power, both in the house of Potiphar and in Pharaoh’s court, was meteoric. Even in jail…
One of the central motifs of the biblical narrative is food. Matzah, manna, mei merivah highlight the crucial role of food in shaping the course of Jewish history. The entire course of human destiny was changed due to Adam and Eve’s eating from the …
Everybody likes a good story. This obvious truism explains why most of us find the book of Breisheet more interesting than the book of Vayikra, with its detailed description of the Temple service. When listening to a speaker it is often the stories…
Judaism has always maintained that a strong family life is the most important ingredient to create and sustain a person of character and integrity. The Torah spends an entire book detailing the family life of our founders so we can learn from their…
That one has a natural love for one's place of birth is a truism long recognized by our Talmudic sages. Emigration is never an easy prospect, even for those who do so willingly. How much more difficult and traumatic is a forced exile? We are all…
How unfortunate when man must put his fate in the hands of other men.
“And the warden had placed all the prisoners in the dungeon under Yosef’s charge. Yosef took care of everything that had to be done” (Breisheet 39:22). In the…
Yosef was a most charismatic figure. How else to explain the appeal he had to so many people? The Torah wastes little time in telling us that, both in Potiphar’s home and in jail, he immediately found favour in the eyes of his bosses. It is…
Yosef was a most charismatic person. He was young, attractive and as the Torah tells us on three occasions, he was an ish mazleach, a successful man. His rise to power, both in the house of Potiphar and in Pharaoh’s court, was meteoric. Even…