Torah Comes to Life | Jewish Wisdom for Our Time

The Zohar says Moshe is afraid to fully confront Pharoah. God's answer to this teaches us how to face our own innermost fears -- and grow from them.

Moses finally agreed to be God's messenger -- but then things only went downhill, increasing the Israelites' suffering. In this parsha we discover this is part of a spiral process to better connect with God.

Each one of us is the king/queen of our own private kingdom. How should we go about building our palace?

The best years of Jacob's life were the ones he spent with Joseph in Egypt. Part of what made them so good was their separation prior to that. Why?

The confrontation between Joseph and Judah is really the tension between the two future messiahs - Mashiach ben Yosef and Mashiach ben David. How can they come together, and how is the secret third mashiach?

Joseph's ability to interpret the Egyptians' dreams resided in his sensitivity to time and timing -- a lesson he teaches us all.

While Pharoah's dreams come true instantly, Joseph's dreams take decades to be fulfilled. Why?

Get ready for a heady ride: while you body is moving forward in time your soul is moving backwards in time, assuming the form of enemies and rivals...

Jacob's descent into exile teaches us an important lesson in reconnecting to our soul root whenever life gets us down.

Why did Judaism take three generations to coalesce, and what does this teach us about intergenerational gaps?