“And he turned away from them, and he wept” Genesis 42:24
By Rabbi Hannah Kingston
Shabbat times for the week
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Chanukah is more than a celebration of survival, it is about renewal of our spiritual mission
By Rabbi Mendel Kalmenson
“Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, when my sheaf rose and stood upright; and your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to my sheaf” Genesis 37:7
By Rabbi Dr Yoni Birnbaum
“Jacob was greatly frightened; in his anxiety, he divided the people with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two camps” Genesis 32:8
By Rabbi Dr Michael Marmur
“She conceived and bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my disgrace’” Genesis 30:23
By Joanne Greenaway
“He ate, he drank, he rose, he left. Esau spurned the birthright” Genesis 25:29-34
By Rabbi Alex Israel
“And Eliezer said, ‘O Adonai, God of my master Abraham’s house, grant me good fortune this day, and deal graciously with my master Abraham’” Genesis 24:12
“Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the Name of the Lord, the Everlasting God” Genesis 22:33
“Look around from where you are, to the north and the south, to the east and the west, for all the land that you see I am giving to you and your descendants forever” Genesis 13:14-15
“When Noah had lived 500 years, Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth” Genesis 5:32
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