Parsha 1 of 54 · Sefer Bereishis
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5781–82 · Year 1 · 4 pages
1 Bereishis Musings: There is a tradition to read Parshas Bereishis in the week preceding Rosh Hashana. This is because, according to the chronology of the creation of the world, Rosh Hashana being the first day of the world would mean the preceding 6 days…
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5782–83 · Year 2 · 2 pages
Parshas Bereishis obviously recounts the creation of the universe. The Haftara for Bereishis is from Yishaya 42:5- 43:10. Let’s first begin with why we read Haftara at all. One reason for reading Haftora after the weekly parsha is that in ancient times, the…
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5783–84 · Year 3 · 2 pages
Parshas V'zos Habracha–Bereishis
Ibn Ezra on “V’zos Habracha” (this is the Bracha) states that this is like the prophetic Bracha, Yakov Avinu gave to his sons before he passed away (Parshas Vayechi Bereishis 49:1). Ramban in his commentary echoes a similar explanation linking the Brachos of…
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5784–85 · Year 4 · 2 pages
This week’s Parsha is Bereishis- genesis, the restart of the Chumash as we embark on the new cycle of reading the weekly Parsha. If anyone was looking for a sign of the eternality of the Torah, look no further than the first posuk and the first Rashi on the…
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5785–86 · Year 5 · 1 page
Parshas Bereishis & Shemini Atzeres & Simchas Torah
It is known that Shemini Atzeres- is assigned special love by Hashem because we are culminating a month of ‘sitting’ with Hashem, and to keep us with Him just a little bit longer, we have this additional holiday; furthermore, on a year like ours, where in…
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5786–87 · Year 6 · 3 pages
This week, we begin anew, with the reading of Bereishis. We never truly ended, as we read V’zos Habracha on Simchas Torah, and immediately started reading Bereishis. Our lives are cyclically aligned, meaning we continually return to the same point, hoping to…
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