Purple Sheet

This week’s Torah portion has one of the more perplexing episodes in Jewish history. Forty days after the Jewish nation heard God...

This week’s Torah portion details the beautiful and elaborate clothing worn by the Kohen Gadol, the High Priest. We are told of the...

This week we begin a string of five Torah portions that primarily deal with building the Tabernacle, the desert version of what...

With this week’s parsha, the fun and exciting weekly readings come to an abrupt end. The sagas and stories of the forefathers...

This week’s Torah portion, Yitro contains perhaps the most famous part of the entire Torah: The Ten Commandments. A quick review:...

This week’s Torah reading contains the very dramatic Splitting of the Sea episode. Exactly one week after the Israelites left Egypt, they...

We are presently in the midst of the parshas about the Exodus of Egypt. Last week’s parsha described the first seven of...

I Promise… This week’s Torah portion starts off with a bit of an odd declaration that God makes to Moshe. God basically...

Karen and I had the good fortune of going to Israel this past week. Her mother lives in Herzliya so it’s a...

In this week’s parsha we have an epilogue to the story of Joseph and his brothers. After father Jacob dies and is...