by Mordechai Dixler | Feb 6, 2020 | Lifeline
“I sing to G-d, for He is exalted…” (Exodus 15:1) After Moshe (Moses) and the Jewish People saw the great miracle of the splitting of the sea, their salvation from the oncoming chariots of Pharaoh and the Egyptian army, and the total destruction of...
by Mordechai Dixler | Jan 31, 2020 | Lifeline
Through the ten plagues and the Exodus, G-d demonstrated that He and He alone is the complete authority, the King of kings. If it is a privilege to serve in the cabinet of a world leader, then how much greater is it to be a servant to the Al-mighty? Pondering this...
by Mordechai Dixler | Jan 23, 2020 | Lifeline
What do you hope to be doing when you’re eighty years old? In last week’s Torah reading, the story of the enslavement of the Jewish people in Egypt and their ultimate redemption began. The key figures in this story are Moshe and Aharon (Moses and Aaron),...
by Mordechai Dixler | Jan 9, 2020 | Lifeline
What do you find more restful – relaxing on a couch, or carrying packages? It seems like a silly question, right? “He saw that rest was good, that the land was pleasant, and he tilted his shoulder to take a burden. (Gen. 49:15)” This is how Jacob, on...
by Mordechai Dixler | Jan 2, 2020 | Lifeline
Joseph’s tears flowed as he wept on his father Jacob’s shoulder. It had been 22 years from the time Jacob sent Joseph to check on his brothers, only to learn that he had been tragically devoured by a wild desert beast. Jacob was inconsolable for 22 years,...
