Vayera - Testing 1,2,3

Click here to listen to all previous podcasts!Yitzhak and Rivka are blessed with twin boys but favoritism, deception and short-sightedness leads to drama over God's blessing.

Click here for access to all of the previous 200 (!) episodes!Sarah dies and Avraham realizes he must secure a wife for Yitzhak before he "joins his ancestors" in the next world. He sends Eliezer for this important task, who knows just what to do!

Check out all of the previous Parsha Podcasts by clicking here!This week, Avraham's stories continue as he navigates God's tests. There is loss of life, but also new life born in this Parsha, as well as three mysterious strangers!

Lech Lecha begins Avram's journey to Canaan as he establishes a new covenant with God. He is promised 4 gifts in exchange for spreading Monotheism. Lech Lecha sees him manifest 3 out of the 4 gifts, but one really important one is left!Click here for all of the previous tellings of Lech Lecha - and every Parsha!

Click here for the full catalogue of previous Parsha stories!Noach and his family are model citizens in a difficult time and God presses the reset button on the earth with hopes that humans will all be like Noach. But then God feels some regret and decides that human beings should be as diverse as a rainbow.

The stories of the weekly Torah Portions (Parshas) like you've never heard them before! Listen for the stories and the beautiful messages of our ancient Torah texts as told by Rabbi Ravid Tilles.

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Click here for the story of the Mitzvah of the wayward son!Click here for the Mitzvah about sending away the mother bird!Click here for the Mitzvot about the ethics of war!

Click here for a telling that captures the importance of creating a just society!Click here for a Talmudic story of Rabban Gamliel and Rabbi Yehoshua!Click here for an imagined conversation between Moshe and a soldier about the importance of peace!