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Parshas Lech Lecha
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Drasha by Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky
- Suicide Moms (5785)
- Outsiders (5784)
- Case Closed (5783)
- Long Distance Call (5782)
- Mission Impassable (5781)
- Wake-Up Call (5779)
- Count Us If You Can (5778)
Dvar Torah by Rabbi Label Lam
- Make It Real (5785)
- When He Eventually Arrives (5784)
- If You Keep On Going (5783)
- One Step Better (5782)
- To Hear with Our Heels (5781)
- A Life of Blessing (5780)
- Beyond Words (5779)
- As HASHEM Spoke to Him… (5778)
- A Giant in Generosity (5777)
- The Eternal Port of Entry (5775)
- Lot’s and Lots of Opportunities (5774)
- The Mind’s Eye (5772)
- The Mind (5772)
- That’s Tzedaka! (5771)
- Worthy of the Brocha! (5770)
- Out of This World (5769)
- I Too Was Struck (5768)
- “The Place That I Will Show You!” (5767)
- Living Miraculously (5766)
- That Fire Within (5765)
- To the Land That I Will Show You (5763)
- The House that Truth Built (5762)
- And Swing with All Your Might (5760)
- A Self-Starter (5759)
- Paradoxical Lot (5758)
- An Uplifting Experience (5757)
Edutainment Weekly by Jon Erlbaum
Haftorah Commentary by Rabbi Dovid Siegel
Haftorah Summary by Rabbi Aron Tendler
Kol HaKollel by Rabbi Pinchas Avruch
- Keeping Focus (5782)
- Attitude Conditioning (5781)
- Spiritual Lamarckism (5780)
- Genuine Kindness (5765)
- No Second Thoughts (5764)
- Recognizing the Source of Our Good (5762)
Legacy by Rabbi Naftali Reich
- The Kindness Factor (5785)
- The Ordeal of Departure (5784)
- Defying Natural Order (5782)
- Home Sweet Home (5781)
- Cloudy Vision (5780)
- Of Threads and Shoelaces (5779)
Lifeline by Rabbi Yaakov Menken
- The Nation of Israel Lives! (5784)
- What’s on the Other Side? (5783)
- The Benefits of Being Separate (5782)
- The Stubborn Independent (5779)
- Nowhere Man (5764)
- Jews vs. Judaism (5763)
- Avraham’s Strange Reaction (5762)
- Once a Jew, Always a Jew (5759)
- Every Drop Matters (5758)
- A House or a Home? (5757)
- Go Away! (5755)
Parsha Halacha for the Shabbos Table by Joshua Kruger
Parsha Summary by Rabbi Aron Tendler
Rabbi Wein by Rabbi Berel Wein
- Return of the Refugee (5783)
- The Conversation Starter (5782)
- A Man and a Mission (5780)
- When History Got Personal (5779)
- Avraham’s Legacy to his Descendants (5778)
- Reaching Greatness: Living in the Land of Israel (5775)
- Our Future Lies in Chevron (5773)
- The Founders of Our People (5772)
- Why The Land of Israel? (5768)
- Jews On the Move (5767)
- From Egypt to Israel (5766)
- Abraham’s Dwelling (5765)
- The Lesson of Avraham (5763)
- The Wandering Jew (5761)
Rabbi Zweig on the Parsha by Rabbi Yochanan Zweig
Table Talk by Rabbi Raymond Beyda
The Living Law by Rabbi Osher Chaim Levene
Intermediate Level
Beyond Pshat by Rabbi Yosef Kalatzky
Hamaayan by Shlomo Katz
- Not Too High (5785)
- The Sweet Aroma (5784)
- Guardian of the Pledge (5783)
- The Patriarchs’ Trust (5782)
- Like Perfume (5781)
- Avraham “Our Father” (5780)
- Journey to Perfection (5780)
- Avraham Was Unique! (5779)
- Not Just Any Place (5778)
- If it bothers you enough . . . (5777)
- This Land Is My Land (and Our Land) (5775)
- Take the Initiative! (5774)
- The chessed of Avraham (5773)
- The Deeds of the Patriachs (5772)
- The Moral of the Story (5768)
- Better A Second Time Around (5767)
- Don’t Walk in Front of Me (Anymore) (5763)
- Ask for Spiritual Wealth (5762)
- Saved in Yaakov’s Merit (5761)
- Freedom of Man (5760)
- There is a Builder (5759)
- You Shall Live by Them (5758)
Olas Shabbos by Rabbi Eliyahu Hoffmann
- Bless You! (5766)
- When Things Don’t Go As Planned (5765)
- Obstacles and Opportunities (5763)
- Connoisseur’s Delight (5762)
- Reaching for Perfection (5761)
- Enduring Lesson (5759)
Parsha Insights by Rabbi Yisroel Ciner
- The Standers and the Walkers (5785)
- A Fuzzy Picture (5784)
- No Pain, No Gain (5783)
- I Lift My Hands (5783)
- I ‘Na’ Know… (5782)
Perceptions by Rabbi Pinchas Winston
- A Request (5784)
- By Invitation Only (5783)
- Legacy (5782)
- Location, Location, Location (5781)
- Inside Lech-Lecha (5780)
- Lech-Lecha In Discussion (5779)
- Your Lot In Life (5778)
- Straighter than Straight (5777)
- He Thinks Highly of You (5775)
- Participating in G-ds Master Plan (5774)
- The Treaty (5773)
- Divine intervention in Our Wars Against Our Enemies (5771)
- Go to the Land of Canaan (5770)
- Lech Lecha (5769)
- Hey, Hey, Hey! (5767)
- Bordering on the Holy Land (5766)
- The Perfect Covenant (5765)
- Exile and Redemption (5763)
- To The Place G-d Will Show Us (5762)
- Learning How To Walk (5761)
- The Beginning & End of the Journey (5760)
- The Internal Journey (5759)
- “Steps” in the Right Direction (5758)
Rabbi's Notebook by Rabbi Aron Tendler
- It’s All About Redemption Part III (5766)
- Grace Saved (5765)
- Spiritual Yichus (5764)
- The Purpose of Creation Part III (5763)
- Uniquely Human (5762)
- Love and Sacrifice (5761)
- Jealousy or Love? (5760)
- The Dawn of a New Era (5759)
Rav Frand by Rabbi Yissocher Frand
- Chumras and Hidurim Were Luxuries That Avram Could Not Afford in Mitzrayim (5785)
- So Too Will Your Offspring Act (5784)
- Kiruv Success “On the Road,” But Not at Home (5783)
- Avraham Is Challenged To Wipe His Hard Drive Clean (5782)
- Maran Rav Ovadia Yosef, zt”l [1920-2013] (5781)
- Things Start With An Argument, And They Go Downhill From There (5780)
- The Lech Lecha Test Rates Higher Than The Ur Kasdim Test (5780)
- “Pshat” in Rashi – Developing Potential (5780)
- A Tale of Two Journeys (5779)
- The Importance of Fairness / The Effect of a Negative Environment (5778)
- Have Mission — Will Travel, But Only Reluctantly (5778)
- Don’t Doubt My G-d (5775)
- The Landlord Is Still Home (5774)
- Avram Lifted Up His Hand…So That You Not Say (5773)
- Lech-Lecha #1 or Lech-Lecha #2 – Which is the harder test? (5771)
- Rabbi Frand on Parshas Lech Lecha (5770)
- Avraham Foreshadowed Self-Sacrifice To Make Aliyah (5768)
- Rabbi Frand on Parshas Lech Lecha (5767)
- Avraham Initiated The 2000 Years of Torah (5766)
- What Happened To Lot? (5765)
- There’s No Place Like Away From Home… (5764)
- Location is Everything (5763)
- No Business As Usual (5762)
- A “Sneak Preview” of History (5761)
- Reward May Come (5760)
- Priorities Confused (5759)
- Dream the Impossible Dream (5758)
- Use Them or Lose Them (5757)
- Neither a Thread Nor a Shoelace (5756)
The Shmuz on the Parsha by Rabbi B. Shafier
Advanced Level
Be’eros by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
Gal Einai by Gedalia Litke
Growing with the Parsha by Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz
Gur Aryeh by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
Haaros by Rabbi Yaakov Bernstein
- The New Approach of Avraham Avinu (5781)
- Ein Mazal B’Yisrael — The Mazal Doesn’t Effect Yisrael (5780)