From the desk of Rabbi Nissim Lagziel, Mashpia in Oholei Torah: This week, we will read parshas Beshalach which has, as its centerpiece, the splitting of the sea and the song of the sea. This is why this Shabbos is called “Shabbos Shira.” • Full Article

This week we read about the spectacular escape of the Jews from Egypt through the ‘Yam Suf’ ‘the Reed’ Sea (A.K.A. Red Sea) in preparation for receiving the Torah at Sinai and entering Israel… Read the full Dvar Torah by Rabbi Tuvia Bolton • Full Article

This week’s Torah reading describes the plague of darkness; eleventh of the Ten plagues. It was a terrible pitch-blackness that kept all of Egypt paralyzed for almost a week. But it also killed millions of Jews!… Read the full Dvar Torah by Rabbi Tuvia Bolton • Full Article

From the desk of Rabbi Nissim Lagziel, Mashpia in Oholei Torah:  The first verse in our parsha, Bo, tells of G-d’s command to Moshe to go to Pharaoh. G-d informs him that Pharaoh won’t listen to him, “because I’ve hardened his heart and the heart of his servants in order that I may place these, My signs, among them.” Then why should Moshe go to Pharaoh? Rashi says, “and warn him.” But this doesn’t sit well because if Pharaoh won’t listen in any case, why should Moshe go and warn him? • Full Article

How to experience freedom when Life is shrouded in darkness, the Key to Freedom is Opening a Window. Rabbi Heschel Greenberg explains • Watch

This week’s reading features the face to face between Moshe (Moses), the leader of the Jews, and Pharaoh the king of Egypt. But before the meeting G-d tells Moshe, “I will harden Pharaoh’s heart so I can multiply my miracles and signs. But he won’t listen and I will smite Egypt and take my people, the Jews, from Egypt with great miracles. (7:3,4)”… Read the full Dvar Torah by Rabbi Tuvia Bolton • Full Article

From the desk of Rabbi Nissim Lagziel, Mashpia in Oholei Torah: This week’s parsha, Vaera, begins with G-d revealing Himself to Moshe. Along with the news about the future redemption from Egypt. The verse is astonishing in its repetitiveness. If G-d wants to inform Moshe that He will stand by the covenant that He Himself made, that could be said in two words or, at most, half the verse. Why must it say: 1) land of Canaan 2) the land of their sojourning 3) in which they sojourned? Why not simply say, “Eretz Yisrael”? • Full Article

Joseph had an Egyptian name and a Jewish Name. Learn about the two theologies embedded in these names. Rabbi Herschel Greenberg explains • Watch

This week’s Torah reading, Shemos, deals with the Exile of the Jews in Egypt and it is filled with questions… Read the full Dvar Torah by Rabbi Tuvia Bolton • Full Article

From the desk of Rabbi Nissim Lagziel, Mashpia in Oholei Torah: Our parsha, Shemos, begins a new book of the Torah. At the beginning of the parsha, we are told about the tremendous growth of the Jewish people in Egypt, and about the Egyptians’ fear that the Jews woud overtake them • Full Article