A Life Filled with Blessing
A Life Filled with Blessing May the good Lord be with you down every road you roam And may sunshine and... Read More
Standing Up for What’s Right
Standing Up for What’s Right This week’s Torah portion has a lesser-known episode of Jewish history. The Israelites were about to... Read More
The Enemy’s View
The Enemy’s View This week’s parsha, Balak has to be one of the strangest parshas in the entire Torah. Parts of it... Read More
Life Isn’t All or Nothing
Life Isn’t All or Nothing Recently someone was telling me of his trip to a modestly sized city that has a small... Read More
Happy, High and Holy
Happy, High and Holy This week’s Torah portion outlines mitzvot pertaining to the priestly class, the Kohanim. There is a greater level... Read More
Love Is All You Need
Love Is All You Need In this week’s Torah portion we have one of the most famous lines of all time.... Read More
Making Miracles and Magic Happen
Dedicated in memory of my dear mother, Eva Nightingale, Chava bat Shlomo and Tova whose first yahrtzeit is the first day of... Read More
A Brush with Death
Dedicated in memory of my grandmother, Toby Kalchman (Tova bat Sena) whose yahrtzeit is Friday, erev Shabbat. And also for a complete recovery... Read More
The Annual 2018 Wine Review
The Annual 2018 Wine Review It’s that time of year again – the Pre-Pesach annual wine review. This is my eighth and,... Read More
Fixing a Broken Relationship
Fixing a Broken Relationship In this week’s Torah portion we have one of the more pathetic events in Jewish history – the... Read More