by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Mar 16, 2018 | Lifeline
This week’s reading, Vayikra, beginning the Book of Leviticus, teaches several lessons which all follow a single theme. The reading discusses sacrifices, including those for inadvertent sins. But not just for the “common folk,” for you and me, but...
by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Mar 8, 2018 | Lifeline
Dedicated in honor of the wedding of Zvi Menken to Devorah Krycer on March 11, 24 Adar. “Like all that G-d Commanded Moshe, so the Children of Israel did all of the work. And Moshe saw all the labor, and behold, they had done it; in accordance with what G-d had...
by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Feb 15, 2018 | Lifeline
This piece is dedicated in memory of my father in law, Rabbi Dr. Azriel Rosenfeld z”l, who, besides so many other accomplishments, was instrumental in helping the work of Project Genesis through his classes and answers to students. Please remember HaRav Azriel...
by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Feb 8, 2018 | Lifeline
This week’s reading, Mishpatim, judgments, is aptly named. Yes, the Hebrew name of a parsha, a reading, is simply its first uncommon word, but there are no coincidences, right? Mishpatim is filled with exactly what the name implies: judgments, interpersonal...
by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Jan 11, 2018 | Lifeline
In this week’s reading, G-d tells Moshe and Aharon to show Pharoah the miraculous signs that prove Moshe is speaking on G-d’s Command, and Pharoah must indeed let the Jews go free to worship. G-d predicts that Pharoah will test them in this way:...
