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Parashat Pekudei

5 Adar II 5784 – March 14th, 2024|

And Moses completed the work of building the Tabernacle….And Moses could not enter …for the cloud rested upon it and

Parashat Ki Tisa

21 Adar I 5784 – February 29th, 2024|

Half the Story   There is a Jewish way to take a census. When God tells Moses to count the

Parashat Tetzave

14 Adar I 5784 – February 22nd, 2024|

And you shall dress them, Aaron your brother and his sons with him, and you shall anoint them, and you

Parashat Teruma

6 Adar I 5784 – February 14th, 2024|

You shall make the boards for the Tabernacle of acacia wood…The use of the definite article, the boards troubles both

Parashat Bo

7 Shevat 5784 – January 16th, 2024|

Warning Pharaoh about the imminent plague of locusts, Moses predicts: “And they will fill your houses and the houses of

Parashat Va’era

1 Shevat 5784 – January 10th, 2024|

…they did not heed Moses out of shortness of spirit and hard bondage. (Exodus 6:9). What is shortness of spirit?

Parashat Vayechi

17 Tevet 5784 – December 29th, 2023|

When Jacob blesses Joseph’s children he says: let them teem like fish multitudinous in the midst of the earth…R. Hirsch

Parashat Vayigash

9 Tevet 5784 – December 20th, 2023|

In managing the Egyptians, Joseph moved them around: And the people he moved town by town, from one end of

Parashat Miketz

3 Tevet 5784 – December 14th, 2023|

And I heard about you – this phrase occurs just once in the Bible and once in Rabbinic literature. In

Parashat Vayishlach

17 Kislev 5784 – November 29th, 2023|

Jacob used different methods to meet Esau: he sent gifts to appease him, he prepared for war, and he prayed.

Parashat Veyetze

11 Kislev 5784 – November 23rd, 2023|

Your descendants shall be like the dust of the earth…(Genesis 28:14). The ancient Aramaic translation of Onkelos adjusts this straightforward

Parashat Toldot

3 Kislev 5784 – November 15th, 2023|

And there was a famine in the land besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham, and

Parashat Vayera

19 Heshvan 5784 – November 3rd, 2023|

On the day of the Binding of Isaac, we are told: And Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled

Parashat Lech Lecha

12 Heshvan 5784 – October 26th, 2023|

And the LORD said to Abram, “Go forth from your land and your birthplace and your father’s house to the

Parashat Noach

5 Heshvan 5784 – October 19th, 2023|

And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives came into the ark…of the clean animals and

Shemini Atzeret, Simchat Torah

22 Tishri 5784 – October 7th, 2023|

Ecclesiastes directly touches our deepest questions about purpose, meaning, love, work, life and death. A recent study argues that the

Sukkot

15 Tishri 5784 – September 29th, 2023|

This year, the first day of Sukkot coincides with Shabbat. Two commandments animate the festival of Sukkot – living in

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