Parsha with Rabbi David Bibi

The umbrella of protection based on the teachings of Rabbi Abittan and Rabbi Aderet    The attempts at a tikun of Kayin in the book of Bereshit and our continuing job.   Daf Yomi helps a driver get out of a traffic ticket.  Does slavery truly begin with the death of Jacob or is it 80 years later?  Decoding Jacob’s blessings to his grandchildren and to his childre...

Vayechi - Jacob Never Died - What does that mean to Us?  Jacob the Paradigm of Truth  Emet and immortality  Children are the legs of their parents  The world was created with three separate alphabets of 22 letters relating to the 66 who went down to Egypt Adam Man and Dam Blood Emet Truth and Met Death Amonay - G-d and Din - Judgement Achieving Immortality

Today we fast in commemoration of Nebuchadnezzar’s seige of Jerusalem which resulted in the destruction of the First Bet HaMikdash. The fast day is simply called Asara BaTevet. strange thing about the Tenth of Tevet is that when it falls out on a Friday, we don’t push it off or push it back, We fast on Friday unlike other fasts. And Avudraham suggests that were it to fall out on Shabbat, we would...

VaYigash We cannot live in a world of only Chesed 5781 Yehudah Crashed into Yosef  Understanding Elokim vs Havaya  Who will be chosen King? Mechilah and Kappara  Recovering from mistakes makes the king.   

Being drawn upwards with the flame!   Are we celebrating a victory or a miracle?   The eight day holidays celebrated by Adam and the origin of pagan winter celebrations.   The Hellenists are alive and well in our generation and the challenge of Hannukah remains.   Joseph to Pharaoh: Interpretation or advice?   Qualifications to run the country.&nbs...

Yosef Prepared a Chanukah Feast and Gave Binyamin Five Portions Corresponding to the Five Reasons Binyamin Merited Having the Chanukah Miracle Occur in His Territory based on the Shvilei Pinchas 

VaYesheb - Yosef was a Gilgul of Chanoch who transformed alive into the angel Matat. Based on the teachings of the Shvilei Pinchas    If Chanoch went to heaven alive, what tikun was to be accomplished through Joseph? Chanoch’s Shortcoming Was that He Failed to Rebuke the People of His Generation  Yisrael in Mitzrayim neshamos that had corrupted their ways in the generation of t...

The Ten Dreams of Bereshit Dream Interpretation  Asking through a Dream  BE Careful who you tell a dream to Dreams are 1/60th of prophecy 

 “Yaakov was left alone and a man wrestled with him!” Who Fought with Yaakov and what was at stake?   Based on Rav Pinchas Friedman   Esav’s Guardian Angel Fought with Yaakov Avinu on Account of the Third Bet HaMikdash   Why does the gemara write an obvious grammatical mistake when it writes: “Rabbi Yaakov Pays Half-Damages”?  Why does Yaakov not take in Timna an...

The battle continues  Little jars and shattered vessels.   Putting me to work in the mines  Is my brother a vampire?  The butterfly in the cocoon  Two men living inside one body.   The process may be painful but it produces  A peaceful reunion in Petra  

A short class exploring why Yaakov after spending a lifetime studying Torah is privileged only to see angels in a dream, then after working as a shepherd for 20 years sees them up close and can even command them. And how we can understand this idea of Yaakov being Tiferet, beauty and the balance in our world through overcoming real life challenges and inspiring us that we can do the same. &nb...

jacob is penniless, where will his ezri – help or perhaps his “Eliezer” come from?   Esav bound his son Eliphaz with an oath to slay Jacob  

If one’s income and one’s health and everything else has already been decided, how can one hoe hope to change things through daily prayer? T he rabbis explain although we are taught, ein Mazal LeYisrael, there in fact is mazal and it’s difficult for an individual person to change their Mazal, so again what are we hoping for?   This week our forefather Isaac gives us a lesson in rising above o...

Rivka on the Camel subjugating the Nachash Did Rivka fall or as Onkelus suggests gracefully dismount?  How does Rivka continue the Tikkun of Chava?   “The splendor of Yaakov was a semblance of the splendor of Adam.” Eisav had a mark resembling a nachash on his thigh; this alluded to the fact that Eisav was a representative of the nachash.     Rav Yehuda HaNasi and Antoninos שני...

Chaye Sara - Eliezer and Transforming a curse into a blessing 5782 He is blessed and you are cursed and the two cannot be joined. How is Avraham so harsh with Eliezer? What is the secret that changes Eliezer to blessed? Why is the first letter of the Torah a Bet while the first letter of the commandments an Aleph?  

A holy soul interferes with the dark side Hashem sends his angels to accompany us  Menashe explains the challenges of Avoda Zara Abraham and the Mazalot and astrological influence Ein Mazal LeYisrael Our personal test and tikun in this world 

Is there anything to a red string? How does one prevent ayin haRah? What is the lesson of Rachel? Why are her cries heard above all other by Hashem?  Why is Kever Rachel on the road? 

The Tree of Life of the secrets of Torah is very hidden and difficult to truly attain due to the revolving sword which bars entry to Gan Eden D’ei Chochmah L’nafshechah – Rav Yitzchak Meir Morgenstern   Shvilei Pinchas - Hashem instructs the neshameh to leave its heavenly abode and to enter a particular body.   These four words -- “אל הארץ אשר אראך” -- to the land that I will show you —...

Lech Lecha Abraham & Sarah - Tikun Adam & Chava  Listening to your wife, good or bad? Adam and Chava - Take Two The snake will come to support you Overcoming Mansapach The reward for silence. Your money or your life ! 

Death and life are in the hand of the tongue    Sometimes one must speak, but sometimes one must be silent   The strength of Noah was in his ability to control his speech     This word Siach is interesting as it has a numerical value of 318    Eliezer is 318  Tameh, the torah replaces it with multiple words asher loh Tehorah   A 'תיב...

Bereshit Birkat HaLevana and neshama yetera 5782 The moon complains The moon representing the Shechina A desire to nourish directly The seven levels of teh shechina depend on us  The text of Birkat HaLevana  Expanding our three levels of souls on Friday Night 

Vezot Haberacha - The number 8 and Going Beyond Nature 5782 15 Moadim or 16 Holiday days 53 parshiot or 54 parshiot VeZot HaBeracha  7/49 representing nature 8/50 representing the supernatural or beyond nature Understanding based on the Hebrew Slave Eved Ivri  Reshit is Moshe and the 1st generation  Connecting the lowest to the greatest  our opportunity on shemini aseret and si...

Whoever fulfills the mitzvah of Succah in this world - Olam HaZeh – will be zocheh that Hashem will give him a portion in the future in the succah. What does that mean? Three strikes - The generation of the Flood, the generation of dispersion and the generation of Sedom  Three types of Torah. The written Torah. The oral Torah of this world. The oral Torah of Olam Habbah. Reversing the wires....

The Trojan Horse and opening for Teshuva A lesson from Yonah and the Kikayon tree  Rabbi Yisroel Meir Lau and the burn victims of the Yom Kippur War The Ramban and R' Avner who converted to Catholicism    My Dad is the Pilot Hashem is our father who loves us  Make a small opening and let him in 

Shabbat Shuva Returning the Heh through Balance and Admission. The lower Heh of Malchut expanding into the upper Heh of Binah. The wake up call of the shofar. Hayom harat Olam Today the world was conceived. Adam's sin and the mixture of good and evil. Bringing balance to the world. Modeh VeOzev Yerucham. Admitting is the hardest thing to do.