Category: Vayishlach
THE POWER OF A NAME
Last Wednesday I crept quietly into a room at my daughter’s apartment in New York,... Read More
LESSONS FROM A BIBLICAL SHOWDOWN (2)
In Parshat Vayishlach (Gen. 32), Jacob confronts his brother Esau for the first time in... Read More
BEING CERTAIN ABOUT THE FUTURE
In his memoirs, the controversial Danish politician Karl Kristian Steincke (1880-1963) presented a collection of... Read More
LESSONS FROM A BIBLICAL SHOWDOWN (1)
In Parshat Vayishlach (Gen. 32), Jacob confronts his brother Esau for the first time in... Read More
PRELUDE TO A BETTER FUTURE
The destruction of Aleppo in Syria and the wanton murder of its citizens has once... Read More
THE DISTRESSING STORY OF DINAH & SHECHEM
One of the most distressing stories in Bereishit is the horrifying kidnapping of Jacob’s daughter,... Read More
THE CURSE OF ESAU
There is so much that goes on in the world that makes absolutely no sense.... Read More
JACOB WRESTLES WITH AN ANGEL
Rabbi Dunner examines the strange story of the encounter between Jacob and the mysterious “man”,... Read More