Prepared by Rabbi Binyamin Yuhanan   Leilui Neshamot of my mother Zilpa Zina bat Rachel and Uriel, and my grandmother Rachel bat Chana and Michael Cohen - Yehuda speaks to Yosef, trying to convince him to let Binyamin return to his father, Yakov. Yehuda begs, bargains, and threatens Yosef. He is willing to risk his life, even though he suspects that Binyamin did steal the silver goblet. He ...

One morning this past summer, I looked at my watch and noticed that the pin which represented the number 3 (my watch doesn’t have actual numbers) had become dislodged and was rolling around the inside of my watch. I wasn’t happy about it, but camp life is very busy, so I didn’t give it much thought. The pin continued to aimlessly roll around the inside of the watch for a few days, but fo...

Stam Torah By Rabbi Dani Staum   Keren Gottleib relates an incredible personal story[1]: “As part of my army service in the Israeli army I was placed, to my delight, in a teachers' unit… “This was shortly after Operation Solomon in 1993, during which roughly 14,500 Jews from Ethiopia were airlifted to Israel. It was a special and moving operation, and the entire Israeli population wa...

By Rabbi Shmuel Gluck   I learned an interesting lesson when I saw what Yoseph did in order to save his siblings the embarrassment of being "foreigners". He relocated the entire population from one part of the country to another.   Parents, Rabbeim, and friends, can often sense a need for something in someone about whom they care. Taking care of that need may require signif...