Torah

Abraham believed in the power of his connection to God and in its ability to bring about true transformation – far more powerfully than any punishment, no matter how justified.

From Yemenite Jews in Operation Magic Carpet to Soviet refuseniks, Ethiopian families, and Bnei Menashe from India, Isaiah’s vision has been realized in our own time.

The Torah presents Abraham not as a spiritual giant chosen by default but as Everyman. He is not depicted as a polished hero with prior accomplishments but as an ordinary person.

The story of Hagar reminds us that sovereignty brings with it responsibility – to see, to hear, and to act with compassion toward those who remain vulnerable in our midst.

Even the loftiest goal on Earth must never be achieved through harming or insulting another person.

“My unit has done five rounds. We have lost three guys - three were killed in an ambush last year. We have wounded. You should know that our company of 80 guys, the majority are now religious.”

Noah walked off the ark into a world erased. The man who carried humanity through the storm ended his life diminished and ashamed, but Abraham’s story is different...

Your investments: My retirement date, every time you ask me that, I’m going to say five years. I don’t want to retire – Jamie Dimon

Even now, our hearts beat together with those of the heroes and freed hostages, who for two years suffered in the tunnels of darkness and the shadow of death.

Just as Noah emerged from the ark to rebuild civilization, Israel emerges from centuries of dispersion to rebuild its land and infuse it with holiness.