All posts in: Yisro

• Yisro

  7 years ago

  Have we left yet???

  The Midrash tells us that while in Egypt, the Jewish people clutched onto three aspects of living in an attempt to maintain their identity. They kept their native ..

  Written by Rafi Jager
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• Yisro

  7 years ago

  “kol asher l’rei-echa” – trading places, are you sure??

  “One shall not covet your fellow’s wife, his manservant, his maidservant, his ox, his donkey nor all that belongs to your fellow man” (v’chol ..

  Written by Benjamin A Rose
• Yisro

  7 years ago

  Hearing..is that believing?

  This week’s Parsha begins by telling us, “And Yitro heard. . . all that Hashem did for Moses and His nation Israel. . .” (Exodus 18:1), but the Torah ..

  Written by Rafi Jager
• Yisro

  7 years ago

  Give people Advice, don’t criticise!!

  Rashi tells us that Yisro had 7 names. One was ‘Yeser’ – because he “added” a parsha to the Torah, by giving Moshe advice to take help ..

  Written by Benjamin A Rose
• Yisro

  7 years ago

  3 ideas about Mattan Torah

  1)All the better to hear You with : As Rashi (19:10) points out in our sedra, before Mattan Torah all the members of Bnei Yisrael who suffered from illness, disease, ..

  Written by d fine
• Yisro

  7 years ago

  I Heard It On The Radio…

  This weeks parsha, Yitro, begins with Yitro (Moshe’s father in law) hearing all that Hashem had done for Moshe and The Jewish people. Rashi (18:1) quotes the Gemara ..

  Written by Tal Segal
• Yisro

  7 years ago

  Reaching and sharing clarity of Torah

  At Har Sinai, the Bnei Yisrael ‘roim at hakolot’, saw the sounds. Rashi explains that the Bnei Yisrael saw what normally could only be heard. It was a miracle. ..

  Written by Jonny Caller
• Yisro

  7 years ago

  Outsiders

  OK, so last week we discussed the theme of taking oneself outside the natural environment. This week’s sedra ironically, conveniently, & hashgachically ..

  Written by DFine
• Yisro

  7 years ago

  The Torah was given to the whole Jewish nation!

  ‘Naaseh’ ‘We will do whatever Hashem commands us’. I heard from Rabbi Guttentag that the Meshech Chochma points out that ‘we will do’ is in the plural, ..

  Written by Jonny Caller
• Yisro

  7 years ago

  5 and 5; thought & action

  The 10 commandments are split up into two tablets of 5 commandments each. The first 5 are bein adam lemakom (between man and G-D) mitzvos, with the second 5 being ..

  Written by D Fine