Toldot 5780 “And the children agitated within her, and she said, ‘If so, why am I thus?’ And she went to inquire of Hashem.” (Bereishis 25:22) In recent years, prenatal ultrasound imaging (as well as other advanced...
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Husbands in the Delivery Room
Vayishlach 5780 “They journeyed from Beis El and there was still a stretch of land to go to Efrat, when Rachel went into labor and had difficulty in her childbirth. And it was when she had difficulty in her labor that...
In God We Trust
Mikeitz 5780 It happened at the end of two years…” (Bereishis 41:1) Parshas Vayeshev concludes with Yosef’s plea to the Sar haMashkim to remember him, and help him procure a release from jail. The Sar haMashkim forgot...
Mitzvas Kevura and Issur Hana’ah in Organ Transplantation
Vayechi 5780 “The time approached for Yisrael to die, so he called for his son for Yosef, and said to him, ‘Please – if I have found favor in your eyes, please place your hand under my thigh and do kindness and truth...
Service of the Heart
Vaeira 5780 And Moshe cried out to Hashem concerning the frogs that he had inflicted upon Paroh (Shemos 8:8) In the Parshiyos of Yetzias Mitzrayim, the Torah records how on numerous occasions Moshe Rabbenu Davened to...
Smartphones, Smartwatches, and Shabbat
Beshalach 5780 “See that Hashem has given you the Shabbos; that is why He gives you on the sixth day a two-day portion of bread. Let every man remain in his place; let no man leave his place on the seventh day.” (Shemos...
