Torah VeAhava - Torah With Love

In our weekly Minyan club memebrs share their stories. In this session we hear Suzy Levin and Reynaldo Yehoshua Rodriguez

Avraham's brilliant negotiation with Hittites. Surprise, Ephron is not a greedy villain.

How was Avraham's servant able to convince Rivka's family to let her go to an unknown land?

Pointers and food for thought on the Parasha. Focus on the two negotiations in the Parasha. Avraham with the Hittites and his servants with Rivka's family.

The Akedah is one of the most challenging episodes of the Torah, if not of the whole Tanakh. the idea Dying for God has become embedded in Jewish consciousness largely because of the Akedah, but it has evolved differently among Sepharadm and Ashkenazim. In this episode we examine the Ashkenazi school of though and the possible influence Christianity had on it.

Chapter 18 in Genesis: The mysterious visitors. Why did Lot serve Matzah? What was the problem of Sodom and how is it related to the Tower of Babel?