Temple Beth David

Shemot 2:11

Some time after that, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his kinfolk and witnessed their labors [alternate trans: he saw into their suffering].

Rashi

AND […]

Bereishit 44:18 Then Judah went up to him…   Rashi THEN JUDAH CAME NEAR TO HIM: May my words penetrate into your ears.   Bereishit 93:6 R Elazar said: … […]

Parshat Mikeitz

Rabbi Steinsaltz’s drash takes up the idea of Divine Providence and predestination. We have free will — and this alters how events occur — but Divine Providence acts […]

Parshat Vayetizei

Bereishit 28:10-12

Jacob left Beer-sheba, and set out for Haran. He came up a certain place and stopped there for the night, for the sun had set. Taking […]

Bereishit 26:15-19

And the Philistines stopped up all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham, filling them with earth. … Isaac dug […]

Bereishit 23:1 Sarah’s lifetime — the span of Sarah’s life — came to one hundred and twenty-seven years.

Rashi THE YEARS OF SARAH’S LIFE: The word years is repeated and […]

Bereishit 22:1

Some time afterward, God put Abraham to the test. He said to him, “Abraham,” and he answered, “Here I am.”

Rashi

Here Am I: Such is the answer […]