Our Patriarch Avraham This week’s Torah reading focuses on our Patriarch Avraham (Abraham), who was faced with many hardships on his way to becoming one of the greatest people in […]
parshas lech lecha
Winning People You’ve probably heard the phrase, “He’s got a winning smile.” It means that when this person smiles, it wins people over, makes them comfortable, or even more so, […]
וַיְבָרְכֵהוּ וַיֹּאמַר בָּרוּךְ אַבְרָם לְק-ל עֶלְיוֹן קֹנֵה שָׁמַיִם וָאָרֶץ… אִם מִחוּט וְעַד שְׂרוֹךְ נַעַל וְאִם אֶקַּח מִכׇּל אֲשֶׁר לָךְ וְלֹא תֹאמַר אֲנִי הֶעֱשַׁרְתִּי אֶת אַבְרָם. He blessed him, and he […]
In this week’s Torah portion, Parshat Lech Lecha, Gd commands Avram to leave his homeland, the land of his fathers, to go to a land that Gd will show him, […]
The story is told about a man in the American West, in the early days of the California Gold Rush. Like thousands of others, he left his old life behind […]
