This week we read about the false-imprisonment of Yosef (Josef) the eleventh son of the Patriarch Jacob. We also just celebrated the Chassidic Holiday of the 19th of Kislev, when Rebbe Shneur Zalman, the author of the Tanya and founder of the Chabad Chassidic movement, was released from imprisonment in Czarist prison… Read the full Dvar Torah by Rabbi Tuvia Bolton • Full Article

The Jews have been reading the Torah aloud in public at least once a week since it was given over 3,300 years ago at Sinai. One reason is to make sure the Torah never is altered or forgotten. But a deeper reason is that the Torah contains vital messages to help us meet every challenge at every time… especially in the week they are read… Read the full Dvar Torah by Rabbi Tuvia Bolton • Full Article

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