After returning from atop Mt. Sinai, after Yom Kippur, Moshe calls the people to congregate. He is about to tell them to collect donations: gold, silver, and copper, colored cloths and skins, oil and spices. They were all to be used to construct the Tabernacle for...

In this week's reading, we learn that Moshe received the entire Torah during 40 days on top of Mount Sinai, and received two Tablets that were miracles unto themselves (the Medrash tells us that letters engraved all the way through, similar to O, Q, B, etc. in...

Our reading this week begins, "And these are the judgments that you shall place before them" [21:1]. Rashi comments that a statement beginning "these..." rejects or supplants that which came before it, whereas "and these" means to add and connect. In this case, we...

This week, Moshe comes before Pharaoh to warn him of the coming Tenth and Final Plague: So says G-d: at roughly midnight, I will go though Egypt…and every firstborn will die…” [11:4] Moshe told Pharaoh that at “roughly” midnight—“Ka”-chatzos Halaylah—G-d will go...

Rabbi Yaakov Galinsky zt"l says something on this week's reading that could have been drawn from current events, though his twelfth yahrtzeit will be next month on the Jewish calendar. In this week's reading, Moshe and Aharon come before Pharoah, to demand the right...

This week's reading begins, "And Yehuda approached him," [44:18] confronting Pharoah's viceroy, his brother Yosef, on behalf of their brother Benyamin. Rashi says he now spoke harshly, with sharp words. My teacher, Rav Asher Rubenstein zt"l, pointed to one of the...