Rabbi Yaakov Beasley
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We have been analyzing the specific role money performs in Avraham’s narrative. This shiur will focus on how that pertains to the last few stories of...
Rabbi Yaakov Beasley
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Article Length: 6 Pages
We examine the stories of Avraham and the War of the Kings, as well as his encounter with Avimelekh. Slowly, as Avraham becomes a beacon of justice and...
Rabbi Yaakov Beasley
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Article Length: 5 Pages
How Avraham acquires his wealth, and how he disposes of it, provides us with a lesson about how financial success can become a test as well as a blessing...
Rabbi David Sabato
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Perek 23 surveys the history of the nation of Israel from the exile in Egypt until the time of the prophet, in a way similar to the historical surveys in...
Rabbi David Sabato
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In perek 21 we have a number of prophecies which are difficult to understand, and the connection between them is unclear as well. The perek opens with the...
Rabbi Chanoch Waxman
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Yaakov is left alone and struggles with a mysterious figure. Why are they struggling and why does Yaakov insist on receiving a blessing from this stranger...
Rabbi Elchanan Samet
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A great silence envelops the episode of Rachel's death – principally because the text refrains from describing Yaakov's emotional response to the death of...
Rabbi David Sabato
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Article Length: 4 Pages
The series of prophetic allegories continues, and in perek 19 the prophet Yechezkel describes the process of political deterioration in Judah in its...
Rabbi Yaakov Beasley
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Article Length: 3 Pages
In the story of the flood, God's description about what is about to happen is unclear. Grammatical and thematic difficulties arise. We examine various...
Rabbi Yaakov Beasley
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Rather unobtrusively, the Torah continues with the mention of one significant individual before continuing with the genealogies:
Cush fathered Nimrod. He...
