Tag Archives: parsha

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.

This week, in Parshat Lech-Lecha, we begin the story of Avram -- Abraham. What can his story tell us about all of ours?

Do you know the source of this classic Jewish blessing?

Where exactly does our national story begin?

Chapter fourteen of Deuteronomy opens with one of the most intimate metaphors for our relationship with God - that of parent and child.

We begin with a word. The word is the title of our parsha: Eikev.

Midrash, the rabbinic method of interpreting the verses of the Torah, always begins with a problem in the text.

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.

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?

Why do certain periods in history seem to be erupting with cultural productivity, while others are relatively quiet?

This week, the Angel of Death showed up twice.

After the sin of the spies, God unleashes the most severe punishment in the whole of the Torah.

What’s the big deal with burning a flag? A flag is just a symbol of the state, after all...

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.

Froma Fallik shares Ayla Lieberman's dvar torah from her recent Bat Mitzvah at Bonai Shalom: Parshat Nitzavim-Vayeilech, on justice, forgiveness and responsibility.

Froma Fallik shares Jonah Kone's dvar torah, Parshat Shoftim, on justice, forgiveness and responsibility.