Weekly Parashah
Weekly Torah Reading Commentaries
Our commentaries search the Bible’s Messages for the Return of the Lost House of 10-Israel and their reconciliation with Judah – i.e. The Geulah or Redemption of Israel.
Mixed with our great Commentaries from Rabbis teaching Parashot.
DISCLAIMER – the authors and promoters of the articles and videos that we place here are mostly not connected in any way to KOL HATOR and may well not share our views and interpretations. We do however thank them for their insight and pointers that confirm our understanding and often broaden our insight.
God’s Appearance to Abraham: Vision or Visit? (Prof.Ben-Zion Katz M.D., thetorah.com)
Prof. Ben-Zion Katz M.D. Genesis 17 (vv. 23-27), Abraham, his son Ishmael, and their entire household are circumcised; parashat Vayera (Gen. 18) begins immediately after this. The first few verses of the parasha read (the New Jewish Publication Society translation, with some modifications): אוַיֵּרָא אֵלָיו יְהוָה בְּאֵלֹנֵי מַמְרֵא וְהוּא יֹשֵׁב פֶּתַח הָאֹהֶל כְּחֹם הַיּוֹם. בוַיִּשָּׂא עֵינָיו וַיַּרְא וְהִנֵּה שְׁלֹשָׁה אֲנָשִׁים […]
Parashat Vayera – Don’t Feed the Angels
Yonah Bar-Maoz Department of Bible by the faculty of Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. Who were the three “men” who visited Abraham? They are indeed called “men” in Chapter 18, men who eat and drink and perhaps even wash their feet. Later, however, it becomes clear beyond a shadow of doubt that these are […]
Haftorah Commentary Parshas Noach (by Rabbi Dovid Siegel, torah.org)
KOL HATOR Comment on this inspiring Haftarah Commentary: Our Blog for this week “Judah the Light unto the Nations” presents a review from another angle of the Great Blessing as expressed in this Parashat Commentary, i.e. to be a Light Unto the Nations in the End Time Process of the Ingathering of the Exiles. This […]
Halachic based Controversy to sharpen wider understanding…
Haftarat Bereshit with Rabbi Asher Meza of TorahJudasim.org
Who is ‘The Servant’ in this Haftarah? (USCJ)
The prophet opens with a proclamation that God created a purposeful world. He then enjoins upon those whom He created to act as His advocates: “I the Lord, in My grace, have summoned you, and I have grasped you by the hand. I created you, and appointed you a covenant people (l’brit am), a light of nations (l’or goyim), opening eyes deprived of light, rescuing prisoners from confinement, from the dungeons those who sit in darkness.” (6-7)
Universal perspective for Peaceful Unity
Insights from Rabbi Kenneth Brander into Torah and Contemporary Life. DISCLAIMER – the authors and promoters of the articles and videos that we place here are mostly not connected in any way to KOL HATOR and may well not share our views and interpretations. We do however thank them for their insight and pointers […]
What to strive for in 5780 and hence…
“And God said, let there be… And there was… and God saw that it was good.”
Thus unfolds the most revolutionary as well as the most influential account of creation in the history of the human spirit.
In Rashi’s commentary, he quotes Rabbi Isaac who questioned why the Torah should start with the story of creation at all. Given that it is a book of law – the commandments that bind the children of Israel as a nation – it should have started with the first law given to the Israelites, which does not appear until the twelfth chapter of Exodus
Parasshat Ha’Azinu Commentary by Rabbi Riskin
“Elijah the Prophet and Understanding the Changes of Every Generation” – Rabbi Shlomo Riskin on Parshat Ha’azinu
The ultimate Consolation – The Royal Wedding
Rabbi Mendel Dubov, Chabad ReferAlso – Text commentary
Change the World around you by your Actions…
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis spotlights ONE ‘hidden word’ in the Parashah – ‘Shevatim’ (Tribes). This observation may well support the Plight of the Exiles of Israel – and especially the vibrancy of the 10-Tribed House of Israel which is apparently being totally overlooked these days: the forgotten exile of 10/12ths of the entire Israel Nation to whom the Divine Promises of Redemption also apply
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