CategoryLech Lecha

Why do we start our Jewish lives with a circumcision?

What actually happens at a bris, and what is its spiritual significance?

When Abraham was seventy five years old, G-d spoke to him for the first time, setting him on a new path of connection to the Divine. What message could that have for a broken, devastated Israel?

For 120 years, Noach failed to bring a single person to repentance. How did Avraham pull it off?

Learn from Abraham to use Faith, not Logic.

Should Jews separate from those less observant? What lesson can we learn from Avraham and Lot? A deeper look into the parsha.

When one man took responsibility, hundreds of lives were saved.

Why is Bris important? What meaning is there to something that G-d could have created in the first place?

Throughout history, Jewish people have wandered from place to place, whether coerced or not. We call it Shpilkes. Abraham had it too. But why did he disobey G-d’s command to settle in the Land of Israel?

Abraham and his wife attracted many followers to Judaism. What happened to them, and what is the message we can take from circumcision?