13 Petals

This is probably one of the most important moments and one of the most important topics to attain Redemption: Repentance (Tshuva), in many levels.   It begins with the phrase:   ‘VaYishma Yitro’ ‘And Yitro heard… how HaShem had brought Israel out of Egypt’ (Ex 18:1).   Previous week’s portion told us that the pagan Read More

Amalek’s Attack   “And Israel saw the big hand which God made in Egypt… and they believed in God and his servant Moses” (Ex 14:31).   In this week’s Torah portion, we are told of the Egyptian Exodus, of the confrontation between God and the Egyptian army at the Sea of Reeds, and of the Read More

God deals with the Dragon   “And God said to Moses: “Enter to Pharaoh” (Ex 10:1)   The expression used in this sentence is very interesting. It says: ‘Bo el Paroh’; ‘Enter into Pharaoh’; the same verb used when God told Noah: “Bo el haTeva”; ‘Enter into the Ark’ (Gn 7:1). The Zohar in this Read More

The 10 Sefirot   In this week’s Parsha we find 7 of the 10 Plagues with which God punished the land of Egypt in order to deliver the people of Israel. Why the reading portion was set in this way? Why do we read of 7 of the 10 plagues and leave the other 3 Read More

In our previous Parsha we have seen Moshe from the aspect of “Tiferet” (which inner essence is compassion). This week we are gonna show him from the aspect of “Hokhmah”. Today’s study is a bit deeper than previous ones, but as always I’ll try to simplify it as much as possible.   Moses as Wisdom Read More

 This continues the previous note. Contextually it made no sense to talk about this there, since it was more focused on Hanukkah. But since the previous note explored a few of Messiah’s aspects, it is worthy to go deeper in one of the most precious aspects shown in the Parasha. TZAFNAT-PANEAKH Another aspect of Messiah ben Read More

Ben Yosef and the Evil Inclination In these days [2013], two Parashot that contain the mysteries of “Messiah ben Yosef” have not been so deeply studied, since the Hanukkah festivity took preference for most people I know, and somehow, Hanukkah conceals “Messiah ben Yosef” in the Parashot  Mikets and Vayigash (Gn 41 to 47). Here Read More

Yosef and Akher   “And she called his name Yosef, saying: HaShem [will] add to me another son” (Gn 30:24). The word “Akher” (other) contains several secrets in this portion.   Another son (Ben Akher) – this is, another son beside Yosef (cf. Targum Pseudo Yonathan). This is, ‘a strange son’ (a son that will Read More

Many of the ideas are based on Ariel Cohen Alloro’s teachings.   I hope the experts will forgive my simplicity within complexity. I’d like most people to be able to understand or at least follow the logic surrounding these commentaries, for this reason a few things will suffer over-simplicity. Chaos and Correction   “Vayishlakh” is the portion Read More