Posts by Yosef Farhi

click miketz 2022 to download THE ART OF HANUKA CHANGE The beautiful song, Maoz Tzur, that we sing each Hanukka night after lighting the candles, has many beautiful insights. As it goes through the ages, the dark periods of time, that G-d saved the Jews from their oppressors, it refers to the Jews of the…

click toldot 2022 to download THE ART OF TAMING THE BEAST The Talmud Yerushalmi in Bikurim teaches that we learn that G-d forgives all the sins of a Hatan, a groom, from Esav. When Esav saw that his parents sent Yaakov to marry a woman who was not from the Canaanites, he wanted to show…

click chaye sara 2022 expanded to download THE ART OF CHOOSING FRIENDS Your friend is either your חבר, friend, or your חרב; the letters, switched around, spell sword. Your “friend” can take you down, can kill you spiritually, emotionally, and productively. Although you can’t always choose your children’s friends, it is your responsibility, as a…

click vayera 2022 to download THE ART OF PARENTING Avraham Avinu was the first Mechanech, the first educator, וַיָּ֨רֶק אֶת־חֲנִיכָ֜יו. He knew that the most important part of Chinuch is not what you say, but how you behave. כִּ֣י יְדַעְתִּ֗יו לְמַעַן֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יְצַוֶּ֜ה אֶת־בָּנָ֤יו וְאֶת־בֵּיתוֹ֙ אַחֲרָ֔יו וְשָֽׁמְרוּ֙ דֶּ֣רֶךְ יְקֹוָ֔ק  G-d said, I must tell Avraham,…

click lech lecha 2022 final to download THE ART OF SOCIAL CHOICE Probably the most sold self-help book of late is Atomic Habits, by James Clear. Here is a small part of his book, probably my favorite part. I adapted it and made it parsha-sheet appropriate: Humans are herd animals. We want to fit in…