PANCAKES AND DOUGHNUTS “If your offering is a meal offering on a machavat, it shall be made of high-quality flour, mixed with oil, and it shall be unleavened bread. Break it into pieces, and pour oil on it, it is a meal offering. If your offering...

THEY STAND FOREVER “And Moshe said to the Children of Israel: See, God has called by name Betzalel, the son of Uri, the son of Chur, of the tribe of Yehudah; and he has filled him with the spirit of God, with wisdom, with insight and...

ALWAYS ON CALL “The Lord would speak to Moshe face-to-face as a man speaks to his fellow and he would return to the camp. But his servant Yehoshua, son of Nun, a lad, would not move from within the tent.” (Shmot 33:11) In several places, the Torah...

YOU CAN’T SATISFY EVERYONE “Rabbi Yochanan said, ‘Great is the power of a morsel of food, for by denying it [to a guest] it can distance those who are close kin and by providing it, it can bring close those who are distant.” (Sanhedrin 103b-104a) The ramifications...

THE HUMBLE SERVANT “You shall attach five of the curtains separately and six of the curtains separately, and you shall fold the sixth curtain over the front of the Tent.” (Shmot 26:9) The Talmud (Makkot 26a) records several great leaders, amongst them King David and the prophet...

HATE IS A FOUR-LETTER WORD “In the third month from the exodus of the Children of Israel from the land of Egypt, on this day they arrived at the Wilderness of Sinai. They journeyed from Refidim and arrived at the Wilderness of Sinai and encamped in...

 HOW IRONIC! “Hashem said to Moshe, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, and the water will go back upon Egypt, upon its chariots and upon its horsemen.” Moshe stretched out his hand over the sea, and toward morning the water went back to its power...

UNLEAVENED BREAD AND UNHESITATING HEARTS “You shall guard the matzoth because on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; and you shall observe this day for your generations, an eternal statute.” (Shmot 12:17) One of the central mitzvoth of the festival...

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! “Pharaoh sent and summoned Moshe and Aharon and said to them, “This time I have sinned; Hashem is the righteous One, and I and my people are the wicked ones. Entreat Hashem – there has been an overabundance of Godly thunder and hail;...

NON-COMMITTAL “It was in those days, Moshe grew and he went out to his brethren. And he saw their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian man beating a Hebrew man from his brethren. He tuned this way and that, and he saw that there was no...