Divrei Chaim

Lots of frum websites and blogs have publicized R' Mendele m'Riminov teaching that reading the parshas hamon shenayim mikra v'ec...

Hashem told Moshe at the opening of Parshas Bo that the makkos will be so great that the story of yitzias Mitzrayim will be something passed...

1. Bnei Yisrael was not receptive to Moshe's message that the redemption was immanent.  Moshe Rabeinu went back to Hashem and argued (6:...

R' Elchanan points out that there seems to be different views in Tos. with respect to the relationship between tosefes shabbos and the a...

1. You have to be the Sefas Emes could ask the following question: What was the zechus that Pharoah had that allowed him to merit having a d...

The Shem m'Shmuel points out the incongruity of two of Moshe Rabeinu's questions that we learn about in parshas Shmos.  When Moshe c...

The Torah tells is that when stopped at an inn en route back to Mitzrayim with his wife and children, Moshe Rabeinu was attacked by some kin...

In my home we hardly have any English language Torah literature.  If it's important enough to learn, it's important enough to learn ...

There is a vort in the Oznayim laTorah that gives me an excuse to go off on a little soapbox tangent.    Moshe Rabeinu as a baby was tossed ...

Continuing the series I started on Rav Wahrman's Oros Shabbos , this week I want to share something a little more technical from later i...

The Chiddushei HaLev (R' Henoch Leibowitz zt"l) uses an idea we once discussed in a different context ( here  from the Shem m'S...

I want to share two linguistic observations on the parsha that shed light on two well known pesukim in Tehillim:   1) Most translations rend...

Last week we started what I hope will be a series based on R' Wahrman's Oros Shabbos .  I want to continue this week with a piece (s...

There are two Midrashim in VaYigash that I think everyone knows, but I don't think most people know that they go together hand in hand. ...

The Midrash (90:5) writes that Yehudah argued to Yosef that the Torah says, " V'im ain lo v'nimkar b'gneivaso ," only ...

When Ya'akov appeared before Pharoah, Pharoah apparently was shocked at how old he looked and asked Ya'akov his age (47:7-10).  Ya...

When Egypt runs out of cash during the famine years described in Parshas VaYigash, the populace comes to Yosef and asks him to buy them as s...

On hebrewbooks.org I found a sefer call Oros Shabbos by R' Shlomo Wahrman that I am enjoying immensely.  I remember years ago R' Wa...

" Ani Yosef achichem asher machartem osi.... " (45:4)   "I am your brother Yosef whom you sold into slavery..."   The Oh...

There is a tremendous mussar to be learned, says the Sifsei Tzadik, from the Shevatim's admission of, " Asheimim anachnu... ,"...