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Avraham Avinu is instructed by Hakadosh Baruch Hu to go up to the mountain and to bring Yitzchok as a Korban. R' Moishe Rosenstein gives a very beautiful and powerful insight as to why this was such a difficult test. He says, that when someone has a test and it's in fron...

Avraham – the First Man to LAUGH in the Torah! ויפל אברהם על פניו - ויצחק "And Avraham threw himself upon his face - and laughed (Lech Lecha 17:17) ותצחק שרה בקרבה "And Sarah laughed at herself (Vayeira 18:12) It just doesn't make sense - it must have been a "MIRACLE!" Ho...

It says in this week's Parsha that the malachim said to Lot: "Escape with your life. Run away and DON'T LOOK BACK." Lot's wife looked back and turned into a pillar of salt. When escaping from the Yetzer Hara, we dare not look back. Feeling guilt and shame from the p...

The Torah says Haggar put Yishmael under a tree, walked two bow shots away so as not to see him die from thirst and sat down to cry. The malach opened her eyes and she saw a well. The pasuk says: "She walked, she filled up her water skin, and gave the boy to drink." Wher...

Here is an (approximate) translation of a Zohar that I came across in Parshas VaYerah: Rabbi Yitzchak says. To what is the Yetzer Hara similar? To a band of highway robbers who murder and steal from people. They take a man from their ranks who is a smooth talker, and they...

(19:22) 'Ki lo uchal' - Rashi says that the angel in charge of destroying Sedom was forced to say that he wasn't able to do it, because he had previously told Lot that it was in their hands (ki mashchisim anachnu). Therefore, Hashem forced the Malach to admit that it wasn...