TweetShare via emailThere is a very interesting Medrash connected to this week’s reading. The Medrash tells us that after Avraham circumcised himself, many people came to convert and join the Jewish People. The Bais HaLevi, Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik zt”l of Brisk, asks: isn’t this contradictory? The pain of circumcision should have people running away, …

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TweetShare via emailAfter the Flood, the inhabitants of Noah’s Ark resettle the world and communities of people begin to grow once again. And in an act of rebellion, they decided to build a tower reaching up to Heaven. G-d’s method of stopping them contains a lesson for us all — He sowed division by confusing …

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