This week we learn about how Jacob laid down, slept, dreamt of a ladder reaching to the heavens and received a strange promise directly from G-d: “The land you are laying upon; I’m giving it to you and your generations”. Read the full Dvar Torah by Rabbi Tuvia Bolton • Full Article

Most of this week’s reading is devoted, in great detail and with much repetition, to the story of how the Patriarch Avraham sent his servant Eliezer on a matchmaking mission and how he found Rivka. The Torah is usually very economical on words. Hundreds of laws are often learned from just a few words. Why does it go into such great length here with this marriage story? Read the full Dvar Torah by Rabbi Tuvia Bolton • Full Article

This week’s Torah portion contains 73 commandments, more than any other. One of them is how to divorce one’s wife; a document must be written etc.  Interestingly the Talmud (Gittin 90a) teaches that divorce is bad. In fact, G-d dislikes it so much that every time a woman is divorced the Holy Temple Altar sheds tears… Read the rest of this article by Rabbi Tuvia Bolton • Full Article

This week’s reading contains the second paragraph of the three-paragraph “MOTTO” of Judaism; “Shema Yisroel. It is written in every Mezuza, in every pair of Tefillin and Jews are commanded to say it twice daily But seemingly it poses a few problems… Read the rest of this article by Rabbi Tuvia Bolton • Full Article