Vayra 5786 Hashem appears to Avraham after he had done the bris mila, teaching us about visiting the sick. Rabbi Akiva visited his student, when he was sick, swept the floor and cared for him, this saves a life, reducing a persons anguish and loneliness in their difficulty, giving them hope, and the possibility of getting better. When the sick are consistently told all worst case scenarios, they often lose hope. This reverses it. Why was Avraham so far out in the desert? If he wanted to...

Lech Lecha Go forth from your land, from your place of birth, and from your father’s house. After Dor Haflaga, where Nimrod, the first person to assert himself as Ruler over others by killing dissenters, becomes the first tyrant in charge. How did he get all the people to get in line with him? The same way its done until today. Create a unified message that offers people what they are convinced they need, usually strength , protection and “building a progressively new world” that first has to...

This one will give us rest and comfort. Noach created several farm implements to ease the work of mankind, after the earth had been cursed. Despite this debt of gratitude owed him, and sufficient respect for his thoughts and skill, when he started to build the Teyva, on dry land, as Hashem had commanded him, not only did the people not take the time to listen and evaluate, they mocked him. They could not hear what he was saying, and had to destroy him, to unheed, the message.  He was a...