Estee Lightstone - Educator Parshat Vayishlach Bnei Yisrael get their name in this week's parsha! It is the event of Yaakov fighting with the angel that Hashem changes Yaakov's name to Yisrael and thereby, we are named The Children of Yisrael. What is so significant about this...
Rav Effie Kleinberg - Educator Parshat Vayetze We read this week about the journey of Yaakov to build the Jewish people together with Rachel and Leah. On the way to Haran where he eventually marries Rachel and Leah, he stops and has the incredible dream about the ladder...
Miri Idan - Educator Parshat Vayelech Rivka, our mother, shows us a woman who removed herself from her home, her family and the place where she grew up. She did "lech lecha" in an emotional and practical way. She went after Eliezer, Abraham's servant, in order to...
Rav Yehoshua Felberg - Educator Parshat Chayei Sarah The death of Sarah Imenu is a sobering event in the biblical narrative. Although the encounter with “death” goes back to the earliest chapters of Genesis, this is the first time we encounter a detailed description of the aftermath and...
Esther Farkovits - Educator Parshat Lech Lecha This is it. The opening story of our father Avraham. We might have heard many stories about his childhood and young adult life. Stories brought by the midrash about breaking idols, jumping into fires etc. However, the first time we...
Ellie Ausubel - Educator Parshat Noach Two Types of Tzaddikim Our parsha opens with an introduction to Noach and his family and closes with an introduction to Avram and his family. The Torah gives what appears to be a glowing report of Noach – describing him as "a...
Sophie Felberg - Office Manager Parshat Bereshit Netivot Shalom relates a beautiful concept that we should set Hashem as a seal on your arm and a seal upon your heart. There are 3 festivals which are celebrated through action. On Pesach we eat matzah, on Rosh Hashanah we...
Rav Yonaton Hirschhorn - Mashgiach Ruchani Parshat Haazinu We are in between two major holidays. We are coming off a 40 day period of growth, repentance, and Teshuva. And heading towards a holiday fully focused of togetherness, having quality time with HaShem in the Sukkah. Rebbe Nachman teaches that...
Rav Michael Sunshine - Rosh Beit Midrash Parshat Vayelech In Parashat Vayelech, just before he dies, Gd tells Moshe that He will bring them to Eretz Yisrael, fulfilling the promise He made to Avraham, Yitzchak, and Ya'akov. Hashem continues and says that once here, in the Land, He...
Lauren Freedman - Eim Bayit Parshat Nitzavim In this week's Parsha, once again, we are presented the curses and the blessings that will be bestowed upon Israel. If we are good, we will be blessed, however, if we fail to act good and choose to sin, we will...