Vayishlach

Genesis 32:4-36:43

Two Names, Two Paths of Divine Service Our SagesBerachos 13a. compare the verse:Bereishis 35:10. “Your name will no longer be Yaakov. Instead, your name will be Yisrael,” with the verse,Ibid. 17:5. “Your name will no longer be Avram,” and state that a ...

The wind was blowing, and large flakes of snow were falling to the ground. The Stern children, Motti, Ari, Esther and little Chaim, trudged through the snow with their father on this wintry Shabbos morning. Motti held his little brother’s hand firmly but ...

Adapted fromLikkutei Sichos, Vol. IX, pgs. 323-324;Sefer HaSichos 5748, p. 138ff;Sichos Simchas Torah, 5748 Three Conceptions of an Agent’s Function Delegation of responsibility is one of the primary challenges in all successful enterprises, for there is ...

This week’s Torah reading begins relating how Jacob told Esau. “I sojourned with Lavan.” A sojourn means a temporary visit. Although Jacob spent 20 years in the land of Charan, he never felt that it was his place. Jacob belonged in Israel, G-d’s Holy ...

In this week’s Sidra Jacob, after his struggle with the angel, is told that his name is now to be Israel. And yet we find him still referred to, on subsequent occasions in the Torah, as Jacob. Yet after Abraham’s name was changed from Abram, he is never ...

Likkutei Sichos, Vol. XV, p. 281ff. I. Several interpretations are offered for the verse: Bereishis 32:25. “And Yaakov remained alone.” Among them: a) The Talmud states Chulin 91a. (and this interpretation is quoted — with slightly different wording — by ...

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