The promise for long life only comes from two commandments: honoring your parents and sending away a mother bird before taking her young. What’s the common denominator here? In this week’s Torah portion, Rabbi Fohrman brings new light to this strange commandment and explains why its reward is long life. Check out more Torah […]
In this week’s parsha (Exodus 21:1-24:18) we are in the midst of two of the most well known and epic stories in the entire Tanach: Revelation at Sinai and the Sin of the Golden Calf. The Israelites experience their highest high and their lowest low, all within the same few verses. However, smack in the […]
Meir Elkabas discusses this week’s Torah parsha, Parshat Beshalach. In this video Meir Elkabas discusses how the Jews left Egypt and witnessed miracles like the splitting of the Red Sea, yet still they complained. What message does this have for us, today?
Parashah: Exodus 6:2-9:35 Haftarah: Ezekiel 28:25-29:21 Rabbi Avraham Feld and OvadYah AvrahamiRead more about the Founders of Kol HaTor: * Rabbi Avraham Feld * OvadYah * Board Leadership and Associates
Texts: Exodus 6:2-9:35 || Ezekiel 28:25-29:21 NOTE: Kol HaTor, in its commentaries on the weekly Parashot, endeavours to search for and accentuate the Torah Messages contained in the Parashot as applicable to the main Theme of Tanach of the Return of the House of Israel, i.e. the Lost Ten Tribes of Northern Israel and their […]
Moshe Rebbeinu did the right thing yet struggled again and again. He needed to harness the powers of his emunah, faith, in order to accept and move forward. In our own lives, we too have to have emunah as we face the hard. Hear this great message from Meir Elkabas:
Parashah: Exodus 1:1-6:1 Haftarah: Isaiah 27:6 – 28:13; 29:22 – 29:23 (Ashkenazi) Jeremiah 1:1-2:3 (Sephardic) Rabbi Avraham Feld and OvadYah AvrahamiRead more about the Founders of Kol HaTor: * Rabbi Avraham Feld * OvadYah * Board Leadership and Associates
Texts: Exodus 1:1-6:1 || Isaiah 27:6 – 28:13; 29:22 – 29:23 (Haftarah, Ashkenazi)/ Jeremiah 1:1-2:3 (Haftarah, Sephardic) NOTE: Kol HaTor, in its commentaries on the weekly Parashot, endeavours to search for and accentuate the Torah Messages contained in the Parashot as applicable to the main Theme of Tanach of the Return of the House of […]
Isaiah 27:6 – 28:13; 29:22 – 29:23 (Haftarah, Ashkenazi) Jeremiah 1:1-2:3 (Haftarah, Sephardic) This Shabbat, we have the situation where there are two traditions for the Prophetic portions to be used as the “Haftarah” – the Ashkenazi tradition and the Sephardic, and they do not overlap at all! In fact, the Haftarot are provided by […]
(AlephBeta) After Joseph was sold into slavery, why didn’t he ever get in touch with his father? In this video, Rabbi Fohrman will help us attempt to look at the story through Joseph’s eyes, and explore the possibility that Joseph assumed his father was in on the plot. This new perspective helps us understand Joseph, […]