20 chapters · by Rabbi Heschel Greenberg
Light from the Future: Parshas Bo
Published by the Jewish Discovery Center. Every chapter is free to read below.
- Bo – All Dressed Up and Ready to Go All the reasons that were given for our stay in exile have all since expired. Why has G-d kept us here anyhow? One answer: G-d wants us to enter into…
- Bo – Don’t Let Your Mitzvos Become Sour Guarding the Matzah represents maintaining humility and not letting our egos gain control over us. When we are not careful about our Matzah, and our…
- Bo – Entering the Crocodiles Den Moses was expected to not only enter in to Pharaoh's palace, but to penetrate his inner sanctum, where he was in his most secure, physically and…
- Bo – Finally Free According to one authority we will always have to express our gratitude to G-d for the Exodus from Egypt even in the Messianic Age, despite the fact…
- Bo – Free and Rich A Jew, from the time of the Exodus onward, says the Maharal (the great 16th century Talmudist, Kabbalist and leader), became an inherently free…
- Bo – From Moses to Moses… The Jewish people were blessed with a leader of monumental proportions. His name was Moses. In the more recent past we were blessed with another Moses…
- Bo – Getting Out of the Black Hole! The plague of darkness was not just the absence of light but a substantive and palpable form of darkness. There are times in our lives that we may be…
- Bo – Hardened Hearts We have a Divine soul. We have received the Torah at Mount Sinai at which time G-d said to each and every one of us, “I am G-d your G-d,” in the…
- Bo – Moses the Matchmaker Moses and Moshiach are the matchmakers between G-d and Israel. A matchmaker does not separate between the two parties. Rather he or she brings them…
- Bo – No More Barking All the earlier plagues were designed primarily to punish the Egyptians, prove that there is an all-powerful G-d, repudiate the Egyptian deities and…
- Bo – Open the Door Freedom is not a right; it is an obligation. Although there are times when we must surrender our freedom for an overriding purpose, we must never…
- Bo – Seeing the Light As a preparation for the revelation of the Exodus and the Sinai experience, G-d gave the Jews a foretaste of the Divine light that they would…
- Bo – The Angels Were Baffled G-d was not threatening Adam with death; He was telling him that a human being has essentially two options: “You can exercise your G-d given ability…
- Bo – The Essential, Rebellious Jew Shabbos is a reminder of G-d as our Creator. Shabbos also possesses a secondary theme of liberation; a remembrance of the Exodus from Egypt. What does…
- Bo – The Explosion In the Messianic Age, the Rebbe explains, we will not just be the beneficiaries of the conventional kindness and compassion that are associated with…
- Bo – The First Mitzvah Judaism is not about religion. It is about transforming the world; making every year, month, week, day, hour, minute and second count. Today is not…
- Bo – The Last Three Plagues There are two tiers of growth in our spiritual lives. We begin with lessons that touch us on the surface and have a limited impact. These temporary…
- Bo – The Two Pronged Approach Freedom can be experienced on many levels. To the extent that we follow the dictates of the G-dly soul over the desires of the animal soul we…
- Bo – Top Priority Whenever we succeed in extricating one Jew from the state of alienation from G-d, and bring him closer to Judaism, we have, in effect, liberated an…
- Bo – Windows 5778 The model of true freedom is the Exodus from Egypt. The Israelites were not liberated to be free. They were liberated to become a nation that would…