I don’t have to go to the gym today! It took more time for me to shovel the snow than I would usually spend in the gym and I certainly burned enough calories. In fact, although my muscles ache and my back is sore, I...
"And Israel said to Joseph... I have given you one more portion than your brothers, which I took from the Emori's hand with my sword and my bow" (Vayechi 48: 21-22).
The Vilna Gaon on the Tikunnei Zohar (22b) says that when a generation has no truly righteous leaders, and there is no proper place for the Divine Presence to rest, it stays over the graves of the righteous of previous generation....
(Kings II Chapter 25) "It happened in the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylonia, he and his entire army, came to wage war against Jerusalem and encamped near it, and built...
To Whom the Mornings stand for Nights What must the Midnights – be! Emily Dickinson The last time we met Jacob he was saying, “The days of the years of my sojourns have been a hundred and thirty years. Few and bad have been the days of my...
"And this is what their father spoke to them and he blessed them" (Vayehi 49:28). Why is it not written that he blessed him, but that he blessed them? Because Jacob divided the land