All posts in Rabbi Heschel Greenberg

  An Unusual Blessing The Mitzvah of Pidyon Haben-Redemption of the First-Born requires a father to give five shekalim-silver coins

  Why Now? After decades of slavery, the time had finally arrived for the Jewish people’s liberation. What prompted G-d

  The Wrestling Match One of the most enigmatic stories in the Torah tells of the time Jacob wrestled with

  The Anomaly After the Matriarch Leah gave birth to four sons, she experienced a child-bearing hiatus. Jacob then married

The Ruse When Rebecca asked her son Jacob to appropriate the first-born blessings that his father Isaac intended for Esau,

  Our Talmudic Sages have taught us a lesson in contrasts. In last week’s Torah portion, Abraham offers his guests

Our Sages, in Ethics of the Fathers, state that Abraham was tested ten times and withstood all of them. It

“…for You and for Them to Eat.” When G-d gave Noach instructions concerning the Ark that was to save him,

Two Sets of Tablets Two Arks? In this week’s parsha, Moses recounts how he shattered the first set of Tablets

  Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When you cross the Jordan to the land of