Nov 28, 2025
Vayetze | Back to Gerar (The Parenthetic Statement), by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom
As a follow-up to our shiur about Gerar and...
Nov 28, 2025
And Thou Knowest No God but Me | Vayetze | 5786, by Rav Eli Weber
Hoshea 12:13-14:10. On the difficulties in the Jews' relationship with God
Nov 20, 2025
Yet I Love Yaakov. And I Hated Esav | Toldot | 5786, by Rav Eli Weber
Malachi 1:1-2:7. How should we worship God?
Nov 19, 2025
Toldot | The Gerar Conundrum, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom
What happened during Yitzchak and Rivka's twenty years of childlessness?
In reading through the presentation of Yitzchak's life in Parashat Toldot, there seems to be a disconnect between the opening narratives of the birth and early years of Yaakov and Esav, and...
Nov 16, 2025
Chayei Sara | Ketura and the Sons of the East, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom
Why Ketura? As the story of Avraham's life comes to a close, we are informed that at some point (perhaps after Sara died), he took another wife - Ketura and, as the straightforward reading indicates, he also took several concubines. He had children...