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

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

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

The Talmud tells us that Jacob wanted to reveal the end of days to his sons but G-d’s presence (the Shechina) left him and he wasn’t able to.” Does this make sense? First of all, what is so important about the date when Moshiach will arrive? Second, why couldn’t he tell? It’s only a date, certainly he didn’t forget it! And what does it mean that the Shechina departed from him? …Read the full Dvar Torah by Rabbi Tuvia Bolton • Full Article

This week we read of the dramatic reunion of Josef with his family twenty-two years after he had been sold into slavery. It would be possible to write a book of commentaries about each sentence spoken here, but one statement stands out… Read the full Dvar Torah by Rabbi Tuvia Bolton • Full Article

This week’s section tells the unparalleled story of a lone Jew, despised and rejected by even his own brothers, serving a life-sentence in Egyptian prison, suddenly being catapulted to be king of the entire world by interpreting a few dreams!… Read the full Dvar Torah by Rabbi Tuvia Bolton • Full Article