Purple Sheet

When to Break the Rules This week’s Torah reading is named after Pinchas who acted decisively, violently and somewhat controversially. As narrated... Read More

The Paradox of Death In Memory of Art Averbook   I don’t know what happens when people die Can’t seem to grasp... Read More

How to Really Win an Argument This week’s Torah portion, Korach is named after the man who led a rebellion against Moshe... Read More

Whiners and Complainers In this week’s Torah portion we have one of the more depressing lowlights of Jewish history. Faced with the... Read More

Black Lives Matter I went to a Black Lives Matter demonstration. Yeah, really – moi. I would love to say that my... Read More

A Blessing On Your Head Let not the blessing of a commoner be light in your eyes -The Talmud                                                  This week’s... Read More

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

Census 2020 This week we begin the fourth book of the Torah, Bamidbar. Bamidbar literally means “In the desert” because it relates... Read More

My Money or Yours? One of this week’s Torah portions, Behar outlines the laws of Shmittah, the Sabbatical year. Every seven years... Read More

Covid-19: One Big Fat Yom Kippur I recently gave my first Zoom class. I was apprehensive. I am familiar with speaking in... Read More