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Mikeitz: Home Sweet Home

Rabbi Jay Kelman

That one has a natural love for one's place of birth is a truism long recognized by our Talmudic sages. Emigration is never an easy prospect, even for those who do so willingly. How much more difficult and traumatic is a forced exile? We are all…
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Mikeitz: In G-d We Trust

Rabbi Jay Kelman

How unfortunate when man must put his fate in the hands of other men. “And the warden had placed all the prisoners in the dungeon under Yosef’s charge. Yosef took care of everything that had to be done” (Breisheet 39:22). In the…
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Mikeitz: Counting on Charisma

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Yosef was a most charismatic figure. How else to explain the appeal he had to so many people? The Torah wastes little time in telling us that, both in Potiphar’s home and in jail, he immediately found favour in the eyes of his bosses. It is…
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Mikketz: Counting on Charisma

Rabbi Jay Kelman

This week's d’var Torah is dedicated in honour of Ira and Rona Kellman, for organizing a family reunion of 305 members of the greater Kelman family from around the world this Shabbat Chanukah in Stamford, CT.Yosef was a most charismatic figure. How…
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Mikketz: Joseph's Pain

Rabbi Jay Kelman

That one has a natural love for one's place of birth is a truism long recognized by our Talmudic sages. Emigration is never an easy prospect, even for those who do so willingly. How much more difficult and traumatic is a forced exile? We are all…
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