By Rebbetzin Ilana Epstein
“The matter distressed Abraham greatly, for it concerned a son of his” Genesis 21:11
By Rabbi Lea Muhlstein
“And Abram said to Sarai, ‘Here, your handmaid is in your hands; do to her as you please.’ And Sarai afflicted her, and she fled from before her” Genesis 16:6
By Rabbi Chanan Atlas
“They said, ‘Come, let us build for ourselves a city and a tower, the top of which is in heaven and make for ourselves a name. Lest we be scattered across the face of the all the earth’” Genesis 11:4
By Rabbi Neil Janes
“Then the Lord God said to the serpent, ‘Because you did this, more cursed shall you be than all the cattle and all the wild beasts: on your belly shall you crawl and dirt shall you eat all the days of your life’” Genesis 3:14
By Rabbi Dr Samuel Lebens
“The wind goes toward the south, and turns about to the north; it turns about continually in its circuit, and the wind returns again to its circuits” Ecclesiastes 1:6
By Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers
And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats: one lot for the Lord and the other lot for Azazel” Leviticus 16:8
By Rabbi Joseph Wolfson
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"Return [Shuvah] O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have fallen because of your sin” Hosea 14:2
By Rabbi Daniella Kolodny
“I am making this covenant… not only with you who are standing here with us today… but also with those who are not here today” Deuteronomy 29:13-14
By Rabbi Dr Benjamin Elton
“I have come into the land which the Lord swore to our fathers to give to us” Deuteronomy 26:3
By Rabbi Joseph Dweck
“You shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget” Deuteronomy 25: 19
“When… you say ‘Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us’, you shall surely appoint a king over you that the Lord your God chooses” Deuteronomy 17:14-15
“You are children of the Lord, your God. You shall not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads because of the dead” Deuteronomy 14:1
“Who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers had never known, in order to cause you hardship and to test you only to benefit you in the end” Deuteronomy 8:16
"You were the fewest of all peoples” Deuteronomy 7:7
“How can I bear your trouble, your burden and your strife all by myself?” Deuteronomy 1:12