Parashat Vayera

Order of Priorities

Parashat Vayeira – 5785 Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, Rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites…

Halacha (Jewish law) Infuses Morality into Religious Sentiment – Parshat Vayeira

Parshat Vayera 5784 Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, Rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites. In…

Abraham’s Moral Stance

In this week’s parasha, we read about tension in Abraham’s household between Sarah and Hagar and between Ishmael and Isaac. After Isaac grew up

Seeing the Good

Parashat Vayera 5782 Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, Rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites In…

Divine Revelation Versus the Needs of Others

Vayera 5781

Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, Rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites

This week’s parasha, Vayera, begins with a double story: The Divine Revelation that

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The Western Wall's visible stones tell of its history from the time of the Holy Temples' ruin. The original Herodian stones are distinct from the others in size and in their unique borders.

The building style of "grading" used when layering the Western Wall's stones, teaches us that the Temple Mount's walls were not perpendicular but marginally sloping.