It is against this backdrop that we approach the haftarah for Parshat Vayeishev. The Rav (Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik), in an address delivered in 1980, noted the unusual character of this ...

We learn in Breisheet Raba 76:1: Rabbi Pinchas commented in the name of Rabbi Reuven: God made a promise to two people, but they were afraid; the chosen of the patriarchs, and the chosen of the ...

In parashat Hayei Sarah, the Torah recounts how Abraham began to worry about finding a suitable match for his son Isaac. To ensure a proper match, he entrusted his loyal servant Eliezer with the ...

Binyamin Regional Council announced Saturday night that Avraham Ben Pinchas, a resident of Harasha, fell in battle in Gaza. Ben Pinchas, 23, was a commander in the Armored Forces and a career soldier.

Tibetan Buddhists have the interesting tradition of searching for their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, only after the previous one has died. They believe that the spirit of their leader is ...

Everyone seems to be in a rush this week. Eliezer runs towards Rivka. Rivka hurries to serve Eliezer, and proceeds to run to and from to the camels. This is following in the footsteps of Avraham ...

Captain (Capt.) Avraham Ben-Pinchas was killed in battle in the southern Gaza Strip, the IDF announced on Saturday. Capt. Ben-Pinchas, 23, from Mahrasha, was a Platoon commander in the 46th ...

prophetically were aware of the future happenings and travails of their descendants [the Possuk states as much explicitly by the “Treaty between the Parts”, recounted at the end of Parshat ...

These are the sons of Tziv’on: Ayah and Anah. It was Anah who discovered how to breed mules in the desert, when he was tending the donkeys for his father Tziv’on. ~ Genesis 36:24 So much ...