Parsha with Rabbi David Bibi

This week Hashem tells Moshe to inform the B’nai Yisrael, that the good times will soon come. לָכֵ֞ן אֱמֹ֥ר לִבְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵל֮ אֲנִ֣י יְהֹוָה֒ וְהוֹצֵאתִ֣י אֶתְכֶ֗ם מִתַּ֙חַת֙ סִבְלֹ֣ת מִצְרַ֔יִם וְהִצַּלְתִּ֥י אֶתְכֶ֖ם מֵעֲבֹדָתָ֑ם וְגָאַלְתִּ֤י אֶתְכֶם֙ בִּזְר֣וֹעַ נְטוּיָ֔ה וּבִשְׁפָטִ֖ים גְּדֹלִֽים׃ Say, therefore, to the Israelite people: I am יהוה. I will free you from the labors of the Eg...

Some people simply never learn. For nearly a year, Pharaoh was relentlessly struck by one devastating plague after another, yet he stubbornly refused to let the Jewish people leave Egypt. Time and again, during each plague, he begged Moshe to intervene and put an end to the calamities afflicting his land. Though he made repeated promises to release the Jews, he never truly admitted fault or took r...

  The interaction between man and the **Nachash (serpent)** in the Garden of Eden is a pivotal moment in the Torah that introduces confusion and inconsistency into the world. Here's how it unfolds:      ### **The Temptation**   In Genesis 3, the Nachash tempts Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, despite God's command not to do so. The Nachash convinces...

וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֵלָ֖יו אֲנִ֥י יְהֹוָֽה׃ God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am יהוה. https://www.sefaria.org/Exodus.6.2 וידבר אלהים וגו'. צריך לדעת מה דיבר אלהים. גם הודעת אני ה' אחר שכבר אמר לו למעלה זכרון השם ואמר לו (ג טו) זה שמי לעלם.  וידבר אלוקים אל משה, G'd spoke sternly to Moses, etc. Why did the Torah not tell us what G'd said? Besides, why did G'd re...

He said to Abram, 'Know with certainty that your children will be strangers in a land which is not theirs — they will serve them, and they will afflict them — four hundred years.' (Bereishis 15:13) The 'Covenant Between the Pieces' between God and Avram demonstrated the power of offerings, brought with proper intent, to keep the Jewish people on the level at which they would deserve to retain cont...

What does it mean that Yaakov Never Died? Didnt we embalm and bury him? Was that a body double? What does Emet - Truth have to do with immortality?  What is the significance of swearing under the thigh?   

  We don’t eulogize on Rosh Hodesh and more so on Hanukkah, but these words of Torah I believe reveal some of her essence and a lesson to all of us.      The verse for Tevet is a verse we mention when we take the Torah from the Ark.      גַּדְּל֣וּ לַהֹ’ אִתִּ֑י וּנְרוֹמְמָ֖ה שְׁמ֣וֹ יַחְדָּֽו׃      The Benai Yissaschar suggests that our goal is to...

  A Year for a Word – Why?   In our class this week on Miketz, we looked at the concept of memory and forgetting (please see that class online).   The class deals with the concept of memory.   The butler forgets to mention Yosef.   Pharaoh forgets the dreams meaning.   Yosef is released on Yom Ha-zikaron- Rosh Hashana - the day of memory.   Yosef connects to Phar...

Based on Shvilei Pinchas 

Dinah, the box, the donkey and Rabbi Akiva .... The story is from the Torah portiona of Vayishlach and questions the midrash where Jacob hides Dinah his daughter in a box, then later on when Rachel requests the mandrakes from leah, leah goes out to meet Yaakov. Dinah is compared to leah, but how? Dinah conceives Yissachar who is compared to a donkey and becomes the scholar of Benai Yisrael. Both s...

 This week’s parsha is parshas Vayeitzei. We are going to focus on the fascinating journey of the stone that Yaakov Avinu placed beneath his head when he slept at the site of the future Mikdash. Subsequently, he took that stone and consecrated it as a monument to become the House of G-d. This journey begins with the opening pesukim of the parsha (Bereishis 28, 10):     וַיִּפְג...

  Eliphaz, Poverty, Wealth and Onkelos   There are those who enjoy the luxury of traveling first class and there are those who would rather endure a few hours with the worst airline sitting in the worst seat if it saves them a few bucks. What a contrast two seats and two airlines can make in travel. We see that same contrast in “flights” from Israel up to Syria in these parshiot. Two wee...