Tag Archives: dvar torah

Torah and the Blues with Special Guest Joey Weisenberg is Episode 87 of A Dash of Drash.

Pharaoh's Heart, Our Hearts is Episode 86 of A Dash of Drash with Special Guest Rabbi Elyse Frishman, editor of Mishkan T'filah, the Reform Siddur published in 2007.

Singing through Chaos with Special Guest Rabbi Aviva Richman, recorded live at BJ in New York, is Episode 85 of A Dash of Drash.

Vayechi  (Genesis 47:28 - 50:26) means "and he lived" and is the last parsha of the first book of Torah. 

And Judah approached Joseph - vayifgash alav. 

The story of Chanukah begins in the year 167 BCE, when a Greek Macedonian kingdom centered in what is today Syria had tried to outlaw the Jewish religion in Israel and replace it with Hellenistic culture.

A selection of some spoken word poetry written over the last month in Alabama, Warsaw, Auschwitz, Krakow, Berlin and Prague.

Jews, Czechs, Poles, Jacob and Esau is Episode 81 of A Dash of Drash, recorded in my last hour in Prague.

I visited Auschwitz for the first time last week and am still processing that intense experience, which has left a lasting imprint on me.

Parshat Vayera (Genesis 18:1–22:24) includes towards the end the very challenging story of Akedat Yitzhak, the Binding of Isaac.

The stories in Genesis are full of depth, mystery and profound lessons for each generation. Parshat Noah begins with the story of the catastrophic flood (Chapter 6) and ends with tale of The Tower of Babel (Chapter 11).

This Shabbos we begin to read the Torah anew. We begin with the portion of Bereshis which tells us the story of creation.

On the sixth day, according to the story, Adam, the first human form, is created in God's image. Was that a good thing?

Every morning during the month of Elul, leading us into the New Year, it is traditional to blow and hear the shofar whose voice is supposed to wake us up to our mission.

So much in life is about listening, and so much about listening is hearing the unspoken.

It can be hard to feel satisfied in this world that screams at us that we always need more!

Ayn od milvado; there is nothing other than God. Does this mean that if we are really spiritual, we transcend all the grossness of our physical world?

The third Jonathan from London is Jonathan Boyd who is the Executive Director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research in London.

This land was once filled with giants. But they died out, slowly, over the centuries, until there was only one left - the great and mighty Og.

“The Forest of Sadness.” That’s the last stop recorded in the Sinai travel itinerary. What is this strange place? And what pain does it hold, there in the shadows of its trees?

Towards the end of The Book of Numbers, there is a list of 42 places on the Israelite's journey as they hope to enter a new land. It is reminiscent of the wanderings of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers of which there are some 65 million in our world today.

Acclaimed writer and director Jonathan Glazer is Rabbi Marc's oldest friend and for years, they have enjoyed conversations on where art, religion, spirituality and culture meet and diverge. 

We should talk about the Daughters of Tzelophehad more.

What’s so bad about Bilaam? Now Balak, the king of Moab - for whom our parsha is named - he’s a real villain...

This week we run into one of the classic questions of the Torah: “What did Moses do that was so wrong?”