“Parshat Vayeira” – Rabbi Elie Mischel
Rabbi Mischel is the Rabbi of the Synagogue of the Suburban Torah Center in Livingston, NJ. “Take now your son… and go to the land of Moriah; bring him up there as an offering upon one of the mountains which I shall tell you.” (Bereishit 22:2) The great Rav Chaim of...
Parshat Lech Lecha: “Avraham’s Mission and Hashem’s Commands to Him” – Rabbi Yosef Blau
Many commentators have questioned the lack of an introduction to Hashem’s command of “Lech Lecha” to Avraham. The Torah doesn’t indicate why Avraham is chosen. A prospective that sheds light is to contrast Avraham’s own sense of mission and that given to him by...