MIQETZ IN FIVE ACTS
While in jail, Yosef correctly interprets the dreams of the imprisoned Pharaoh's officers. Two years later, Pharaoh has a dream. He is standing...
MIQETZ: Droughts, Floods, and the Exquisite Accuracy of our Tora
כי זה שנתים הרעב בקרב הארץ ועוד חמש שנים אשר אין חריש וקציר
There has been famine in the land for two years now, and...
MIQETZ: Having God In Mind
"Emuna" is generally translated as faith, and is understood as "believing in the existence of God". But the Emuna / faith of Yosef went...
VAYESHEB: Faith requires patience
YOSEF, THE MANAGER
Yosef was sold by his brothers and transported to the slave market in Egypt, where Potiphar, a minister in Pharaos court, acquired...
9. Hanukka and The First Independent Jewish State
Shimon and the First Independent Jewish State
During these days of Hanukka, I have tried to convey to my readers that the miracle of Hanukka...
VAYISHLACH: Shimon, Levi and the Israeli Army
ABRAHAM AND ISAAC
At the beginning of Jewish history, when we were not yet a people or even a tribe, but merely a small nuclear...
8. The Miracle of Jewish Resilience
THE END OF YEHUDA MACABEE
General Lysias arrived in Antiochia, the capital of the Seleucid kingdom, defeated Philipus, and became the regent of the 9-year-old...
7. Was this the greatest miracle of Hanukka?
ELEPHANTS JOIN THE BATTLE
The miracle of the oil that lasted for eight days was not the last Providential act of Hanukka. Although they were...
6. The Most Beautiful Unknown Story of Hanukka
This is the story of one of Yehuda Maccabee's battles, likely unknown to most readers, which I only recently learned about by reading the...
5. Recovering Jerusalem and Rededicating the Temple
AN INVINCIBLE ARMY?
When the Seleucid general Lysias learned of the defeat of his generals by the Jewish rebels led by Yehudah Macabi (see here),...
