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Bereishit
| Toldot Ha-shamayim Ve-ha'aretz: Man's Sins Transform the World | Rav Reuven Taragin |
| Religious Sin, Ethical Sin and the Punishment of Exile | Rav Yonatan Grossman |
| Why Did God Not Accept Kayin's Offering? | Rav Elchanan Samet |
| Bereishit | Rav Ezra Bick |
| And God Saw that it Was Good | Rav Chanoch Waxman |
| The Story of Creation and our Ecological Crisis | Rav Elchanan Samet |
| "And Chanoch Walked With the Lord" | Rav Amnon Bazak |
| The Snakes Sin and Its Punishment | Rav Yaakov Medan |
| The Story of Creation | Rav Tamir Granot |
| The Story of Chava (Bereishit 4) | Rav Yehuda Rock |
Noach
| The First World and the Second | Rav Yonatan Grossman |
| Noach | Rav Ezra Bick |
| "And Man's Loftiness Will be Bowed:" The Sin and Punishment of the Tower of Bavel |
Rav Elchanan Samet |
| The Flood and Its Aftermath | Rav Yitzchak Blau |
| Survival and Revival - On the Righteousness of Noach | Rav Chanoch Waxman |
| Two Covenants to Preserve the World | Rav Elchanan Samet |
| Noach, the Dove, and the Raven | Rav Yonatan Grossman |
| "Then I Shall Bring Upon the Nations a Clear Language" | Rav Yaakov Medan |
| What Changed After the Flood? | Rav Tamir Granot |
| The Tower of Bavel | Rabbanit Sharon Rimon |
Lekh Lekha
| Lekh Lekha | Rav Avraham Walfish |
| The Suffering of Hagar and the Enslavement in Egypt | Rav Yonatan Grossman |
| Sarai and Hagar | Rav Ezra Bick |
| "Sarah Treated Her Harshly" - Did Our Matriarch Sin in This Regard? |
Rav Elchanan Samet |
| Avraham and Terach's Migration to Canaan | Rav Yonatan Grossman |
| By What Shall I Know? Question and Covenant | Rav Chanoch Waxman |
| A Double Test | Rav Elchanan Samet |
| Avraham and the Idols: A Midrashic Reflection of a Biblical Story | Rav Amnon Bazak |
| "Berit Benei Ha-betarim" - the Covenant Between the Parts | Rav Yaakov Medan |
| Who was Avraham? | Rav Yair Kahn |
| Calling in Hashem's Name | Rav Yehuda Rock |
Vayeira
| Vayeira | Rav Ezra Bick |
| News of the Birth of Yitzchak | Rav Yonatan Grossman |
| From Lekh Lekha Me-artzekcha to Lekh Lekha El
Ha-makom A Dynasty Born of Faith |
Rav Reuven Taragin |
| The Birth of Yitzchak and the Banishment of Hagar and Yishmael |
Rav Elchanan Samet |
| Avraham's Mission | Rav Shalom Berger |
| But My Covenant I Shall Establish with Yitzchak | Rav Chanoch Waxman |
| Rashbam's Interpretation of the Story of Avraham and the Angels | Rav Elchanan Samet |
| The Salvation of Lot | Rav Yonatan Grossman |
| The Way of God and the Way of Righteousness and Justice | Rav Yaakov Medan |
| Revelation to Avraham vs. Revelation to Moshe | Rav Tamir Granot |
| The Prophet in Prayer | Rabbanit Sharon Rimon |
Chayei Sara
| "And the field, and the cave therein, were upheld unto Avraham for a possession..." | Rav Amnon Bazak |
| The Status of Yishmael, or Hagar's Escape and Hagar's Banishment | Rav Yonatan Grossman |
| Sichat Avdei Avot | Rav Yair Kahn |
| The Speech and the Silence of Avraham's Servant | Rav Elchanan Samet |
| Camel-flage | Rav Yaacov Steinman |
| The Bride of Yitzchak | Rav Chanoch Waxman |
| "There Avraham Was Buried, and Sarah His Wife" | Rav Elchanan Samet |
| Give Me a Possession of a Burial Place withYou" | Rav Yonatan Grossman |
| Ketura | Rav Yaakov Medan |
| "Not to Take a Wife from the Daughters of the Canaanites" | Rav Tamir Granot |
| The Purchase of the "Burial Possession" | Rav Yehuda Rock |
Toldot
| Toldot | Rav Ezra Bick |
| "Avraham Bore Yitzchak..." | Rav Yonatan Grossman |
| Toldot | Rav Avraham Walfish |
| The Moral Dimension of the Story of Yitzchak's Blessings | Rav Elchanan Samet |
| The Blindness of Yitzchak | Rav Ezra Bick |
| And Now my Son Listen to my Voice | Rav Chanoch Waxman |
| "And the Children Strove Within Her" | Rav Elchanan Samet |
| The Differences Between Avraham and Yitzchak | Rav Amnon Bazak |
| Esav's Merit | Rav Yaakov Medan |
| Three Different Blessings | Rav Tamir Granot |
| The Birthright | Rabbanit Sharon Rimon |
Vayeitze
| Vayeitze | Rav Joshua Berman |
| "Mei-Hashem Yatza Ha-davar" Perceiving Providence | Rav Reuven Taragin |
| The Parallel Between Yaakov and Avraham | Rav Yonatan Grossman |
| There and Back Again: The Exilic Journeys and Sojourns of Vayetze | Rav Elchanan Samet |
| The Covenant of Separation | Rav Ezra Bick |
| Of Angels, Pillars and Brothers | Rav Chanoch Waxman |
| The Meeting at the Well | Rav Elchanan Samet |
| "And He Found Mandrakes in the Field" | Rav Yonatan Grossman |
| Beit-El | Rav Yaakov Medan |
| The Dream of the Ladder | Rav Tamir Granot |
| Yaakov's Oath and Rachel's Terafim | Rav Yehuda Rock |
Vayishlach
| Vayishlach | Rav Binyamin Tabory |
| The Vow and the Name Change | Rav Yonatan Grossman |
| Rachel | Rav Amnon Bazak |
| Ya'akov's Encounter with Esav and His Struggle with the Angel |
Rav Elchanan Samet |
| Beit-El | Rav Ezra Bick |
| And Yaakov was Left Alone | Rav Chanoch Waxman |
| A Great Silence: The Story of Rachel's Death | Rav Elchanan Samet |
| Shimon and Levi in Shekhem | Rav Amnon Bazak |
| "Anyone Who Says That Reuven Sinned..." | Rav Yaakov Medan |
| "Power of Judgment" Shimon and Levi in Shekhem | Rav Tamir Granot |
| Rachel's Burial "On The Way" | Rabbanit Sharon Rimon |
Vayeishev
| Vayeshev | Rav Yair Kahn |
| Tamar And Yosef | Rav Yonatan Grossman |
| Vayeshev | Rav Mosheh Lichtenstein |
| The Meaning of Yosef's Dreams | Rav Elchanan Samet |
| The Fall and Rise of Yosef | Rav Zvi Shimon |
| The Prince and the Prison | Rav Chanoch Waxman |
| Yehuda and Tamar A Story Within a Story? | Rav Elchanan Samet |
| Two Dreams and Two Solutions | Rav Yonatan Grossman |
| In the Footsteps of Yosef and the Midrash | Rav Yaakov Medan |
| The Story of Joseph | Rav Tamir Granot |
| The Sale of Yosef | Rav Yehuda Rock |
Miketz
| Why Didn't Joseph Contact His Father? | Rav Zvi Shimon |
| The Interpretation of Pharaoh's Dream | Rav Yonatan Grossman |
| Yaakov and Yehuda | Rav Ezra Bick |
| Reuven's Attempt to Save Yosef | Rav Elchanan Samet |
| The Intractable Question: Why Did Yosef Not Send Word to his Father? |
Rav Yoel Bin-Nun |
| Of Bags and Brothers | Rav Chanoch Waxman |
| What Does the Story of Yosef Come to Teach Us? | Rav Elchanan Samet |
| "There Is None So Wise and Knowing As You" | Rav Amnon Bazak |
| The Meaning of Yosef's Enstrangement | Rav Yaakov Medan |
| Yosef: Dreamer and Interpreter | Rav Tamir Granot |
| Reuven and Yehuda | Rabbanit Sharon Rimon |
Vayigash
| Vayigash | Rav Michael Rosensweig |
| The Priests of Egypt and the Kohanim of Israel | Rav Yonatan Grossman |
| Vayigash | Rav Yaakov Meidan |
| Yehuda's Monologue: Reading Between the Lines | Rav Elchanan Samet |
| Why Did Yosef Not Send Word to his Father? A Solution | Rav Yoel Bin-Nun |
| Yehuda's Plea and Its Audiences | Rav Chanoch Waxman |
| Seventy Souls | Rav Elchanan Samet |
| Yehuda vs. Tamar as Background to Yehuda vs. Yosef | Rav Yonatan Grossman |
| Yosef and Yehuda | Rav Yaakov Medan |
| Template of the Diaspora | Rav Tamir Granot |
| The Leadership of Yehuda (II) | Rabbanit Sharon Rimon |
Vayechi
| The Meaning of Yaakov's Message to Dan | Rav Yitzchak Blau |
| Vayechi Yaakov - Vayechi Yosef | Rav Yonatan Grossman |
| Vayechi | Rav Ezra Bick |
| Ya'akov's Last Bow: A Retrospective Look at the Life of our Patriarch |
Rav Elchanan Samet |
| The Path of Repentance: A Response to Rav Yoel Bin-Nun |
Rav Ya'akov Medan |
| The Tears of Yosef | Rav Chanoch Waxman |
| "They Are Mine, Efraim and Menashe" | Rav Elchanan Samet |
| Yosef's Teshuva | Rav Amnon Bazak |
| Rachel's Death and Burial | Rav Yaakov Medan |
| Yaakov's Blessing | Rav Tamir Granot |
| Yaakov's Blessing to Yosef | Rav Yehuda Rock |
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