http://www.chabadaz.com/magazine/default.asp?aid=15558 Chabad.org Parshah Portal features basic texts, summaries and in-depth analysis as well as commentary and other articles on the weekly Torah portion Copyright 2005, Chabad.org - Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center, all rights reserved. http://www.chabadaz.com/media/images/50/CtRx507451.gif 130 52 http://www.chabadaz.com Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=3228 http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=3228 Got no more than five minutes? The Parshah in a Nutshell is an ultra-short, one-page synopsis of the weekly Torah reading, peppered with links to related stories, essays and articles. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadaz.com/parshah/torahreading.asp?AID=15558 http://www.chabadaz.com/parshah/torahreading.asp?AID=15558 Modern English translation of the full text of the Parshah. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadaz.com/parshah/rashi/default.asp?AID=15558 http://www.chabadaz.com/parshah/rashi/default.asp?AID=15558 A modern English translation of the full text of the Parshah with the classic commentary by Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, 1040-1105), universally regarded as the most basic tool for understanding the meaning of the text for schoolchild and scholar alike. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadaz.com/parshah/in-depth/default.asp?AID=35881 http://www.chabadaz.com/parshah/in-depth/default.asp?AID=35881 Explore the Parshah together with a hundred generations of scholars and mystics, from Moses to today. Includes a detailed summary and overview, and dozens of selected excerpts from the Midrash, Talmud, the Commentaries and the Chassidic Masters. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=1138 http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=1138 The three periods in Jacob's life -- Hebron, Charan and Egypt -- as guideposts through three modes of living: how to exploit transcendent "moments of truth", how to exhilarate in struggle, and how to exist under subjugation Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=2714 http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=2714 Intrinsic to our nature is a perpetual striving for self-improvement. But no less basic to our being is the capacity for receptiveness and sacrifice, the conviction that there is no greater greatness than the abnegation of self to a higher end. These are the "Jacob" and "Rachel" within every man and woman Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=2715 http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=2715 Our sages tell us that "Jacob wished to reveal to his sons the end of days, whereupon the divine presence departed from him." Why, indeed, would Jacob wish to do such a thing? If the children of Israel had been told that the date of Moshiach's coming is thousands of years in the future, would this not have had a most adverse effect on their morale? Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=2711 http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=2711 "Our father Jacob did not die," said Rabbi Yochanan. Asked Rabbi Yitzchak: "Was it for no reason that the eulogizers eulogized, the embalmers embalmed, and the buriers buried?" Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=2712 http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=2712 The deeper significance of the course of events which led to the burial of "Esau's head in the bossom of Isaac" Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=65705 http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=65705 If we take the names of the twelve Torah-section ("Parshahs") of the Book of Genesis and read them in succession as a sort of shorthand or code, we get a synoptic account of the human story: the purpose of our creation, the soul's transformation from a wholly spiritual entity to a physical human being, the manner in which we develop our self and environment, and the ultimate realization of our mission in life Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=335723 http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=335723 Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=345632 http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=345632 Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=335726 http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=335726 Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=335732 http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=335732 Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=459513 http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=459513 Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=335725 http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=335725 Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=335733 http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=335733 Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=335724 http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=335724 Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=335738 http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=335738 Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=335739 http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=335739 Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=804449 http://www.chabadaz.com/article.asp?aid=804449 Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST