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Vayeira – 5780
Vayeira – 5780
Noach 5780
WHO AM I?
This week’s Parsha, Noach, tells us that Noach was perfectly righteous and walked with HaShem. In next week’s Parsha HaShem instructs Avraham to “walk before Him and to be perfect”. The implication is that Avraham was not yet perfect while Noach had already achieved perfection. It therefore begs the question why is Avraham chosen to father the Jewish people and not Noach. Isn’t Noach, who had achieved perfection al-ready, greater than Avraham who had not yet achieved that state?
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Noach – 5780
Noach – 5780
Pesach II – 5779
Vayishlach – 5779
Vayishlach 5779
THE SAND
In this week’s Parsha, Vayishlach, our father Yaakov references HaShem’s promise that ‘his children shall be like to sand of the sea which is not counted because it is so numerous’. It is noteworthy that the promise was not that ‘they will as numerous as the sand of the sea’, but that ‘they shall be like the sand of the sea’. It would seem that the parallel to the sand is not limited to the number of grains but to the very essence of the sand. If this is correct we need to appreciate the significance of the sand of the sea.
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