Purple Sheet

Speak Truth to Power This week’s Torah portion has a small and not so well-known but crucial episode of Jewish history. The... Read More

You Can Go Your Own Way   In this week’s Torah portion, the Jewish people are confronted with an enemy of a... Read More

To Infinity and Beyond   This week’s Torah portion is named after a category of mitzvot called Chukim (singular for Chok). The 613 commandments can... Read More

This week’s essay is dedicated in memory of Miriam Amselem   Is it Worth the Fight?   This week’s Torah reading is... Read More

Many people are under the mistaken impression that the reason the Israelites wandered the desert for 40 years was because of the... Read More

The other day someone approached my daughter, Atara as she was getting out of her Saab 9-3 and told her, “Don’t ever... Read More

Can we climb this mountain? I don’t know -The Killers   Shavuot, the holiday commemorating the giving of the Torah to the... Read More

This week’s Torah portion, Bechukotai is not one of the funner Torah readings. It contains the Tochacha, sometimes called The Admonition or Reproof and is a... Read More

This week’s Torah portion speaks of the laws of Shmittah, the Sabbatical year. Every seventh year the Jewish people living in Israel are... Read More

We are in the midst of the mitzva of Sefirat HaOmer, the Counting of the Omer. Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller of Neve Yerushalayim, the very... Read More