This week’s parsha bears a striking echo to our current situation. It is the law of someone who got Tzaraat, a disease with physical symptoms of spiritual flaws that affected the person’s body, clothes, or even homes.
Read More »DESTINED TO DOUBT – Parshat Lech Lecha
This week, in Parshat Lech-Lecha, we begin the story of Avram -- Abraham. What can his story tell us about all of ours?
Read More »May You Live to 120 – Parshat Nitzavim-Vayeilech
Do you know the source of this classic Jewish blessing?
Read More »Wandering Jews and Syrians – Parshat Ki Tavo
Where exactly does our national story begin?
Read More »The Body Politic – Parshat Re’eh
Chapter fourteen of Deuteronomy opens with one of the most intimate metaphors for our relationship with God - that of parent and child.
Read More »There Was A Crooked Man… Parshat Eikev
We begin with a word. The word is the title of our parsha: Eikev.
Read More »A Matter Of Interpretation – Parashat Va’etchanan
Midrash, the rabbinic method of interpreting the verses of the Torah, always begins with a problem in the text.
Read More »ParshaNut: The Original Chabad – Parashat Devarim
This week, we take a journey into the realm of Jewish epistemology. That ten-dollar word, epistemology, refers to theories of knowledge - attempts to answer the fundamental questions of how we know things and what can be known at all.
Read More »ParshaNut: The View From The Top – Parashat Balak
This week King Balak seeks to curse the Children of Israel, and fails. Then he does it again. And again. Why does he keep trying?
Read More »ParshaNut – The Genesis of Jewish Culture: Parashat Chukat
Why do certain periods in history seem to be erupting with cultural productivity, while others are relatively quiet?
Read More »ParshaNut – Guardian Angels – Parshat Korach
This week, the Angel of Death showed up twice.
Read More »ParshaNut – Day of the Dead, Parashat Shelach
After the sin of the spies, God unleashes the most severe punishment in the whole of the Torah.
Read More »Flags of Love and War – Parashat Bamidbar
What’s the big deal with burning a flag? A flag is just a symbol of the state, after all...
Read More »Parsha Musings by Moshe Scheiner
The vast majority of Americans make charitable contributions because it feels good. All it takes is one act of goodness in any situation that can have the greatest impact.
Read More »Parshat Nitzavim-Vayeilech: Teen Dvar Torah
Froma Fallik shares Ayla Lieberman's dvar torah from her recent Bat Mitzvah at Bonai Shalom: Parshat Nitzavim-Vayeilech, on justice, forgiveness and responsibility.
Read More »Parshat Shoftim: Teen Dvar Torah
Froma Fallik shares Jonah Kone's dvar torah, Parshat Shoftim, on justice, forgiveness and responsibility.
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