All posts in: Yisro

• Yisro

  7 years ago

  YISRO – THE ART OF LISTENING

  One of the striking features of Parshas Yisro is the juxtaposition of the portion about Yisro’s advice to Moshe Rabbeinu with Matan Torah. Reb Tzadok HaKohen provides ..

  Written by Rabbi Yehonasan Gefen
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• Yisro

  7 years ago

  Back to Sinai

  Chazal teach us, “b’kol yom yihiye b’einecha ki’ilu hayom nitna”, every day we should look at the Torah as if it was given today (Rashi, ..

  Written by Rabbi Yosef Levinson
• Yisro

  7 years ago

  Kibbud Av v’Eim

  In this weeks parsha we are given the 10 commandments. The events in this parsha more than most others is what makes us jews. The 10 commandments are made up of 5 bein ..

  Written by Benjamin A Rose
• Yisro

  7 years ago

  What’s Bothering Rashi?

  This week’s sedra contains the Ten Commandments. Before that monumental event is recorded* we are told of the arrival of Yisro, Moses’ father-in-law ..

  Written by Dr Avigdor Bonchek
• Yisro

  7 years ago

  Achdus is all Hashem wants

  This weeks parsha sees the Jews coming to Har Sinai about to receive the Torah. The possuk says “vayichan shom yisroel neged hahar” Rashi comments saying ..

  Written by Benjamin A Rose
• Yisro

  7 years ago

  You shall have no other gods before me

  You shall have no other gods before me. (SHEMOS 20:3) Once in his early years, Rabbi Yoseph Dov Halevi Soloveitchik, later to become the Rabbi of Brisk and author ..

  Written by Shema Yisrael Torah Network
• Yisro

  7 years ago

  Saadia Gaon on Kibbud Av V’Eim

  The Torah tells us that the reward for Kibud Av V’Eim is long life. Rav Saadia Gaon explains that sometimes when parents get old and the responsibility of taking ..

  Written by Benjamin A Rose
• Yisro

  7 years ago

  Hearing is Believing!

  In the first line of this weeks Torah portion we understand that Yisro, Moshe’s (non-Jewish) father-in-law ‘heard’ about the splitting of the Yam suf (Reed ..

  Written by Moshe Kormornick
• Yisro

  7 years ago

  The Mizbei’ach as a symbol of modesty

  There are two prohibitions that the Torah gives regarding the structure of the Mizbei’ach. Firstly you cannot raise a sword or knife to it, even to carve its shape. ..

  Written by Benjamin A Rose
• Yisro

  7 years ago

  Parashat Yitro

  Parshat Yitro describes Yitro hearing of the travels and trials of the Jews, Yitro being moved to convert, coming to Moshe for the conversion, and then leaving Moshe. ..

  Written by M Zemmel