Parshat Chukat: To Infinity and Beyond
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
Parshat Korach: Is it Worth the Fight?
This week’s essay is dedicated in memory of Miriam Amselem Is it Worth the Fight? This week’s Torah reading is... Read More
Parshat Shlach: A Few Good Men
Many people are under the mistaken impression that the reason the Israelites wandered the desert for 40 years was because of the... Read More
Parshat Beha’alotcha: Everything Dies, Except…
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
Parsha BaMidbar: When We Were Young
Can we climb this mountain? I don’t know -The Killers Shavuot, the holiday commemorating the giving of the Torah to the... Read More
Parshat Bechukotai: For the Love of Fear
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
Parshat Behar: More is Never Enough
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
Parshat Emor: The Story of My Life
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
Parsha Kedoshim: How to be Holy
Parshat Kedoshim begins by telling us to be holy. “You shall be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy” are... Read More
Parsha Achrei Mot: Looking for Mr. Munk
Looking For Mr. Munk Here I am again Back on the corner again Back where I belong Where I’ve always been... Read More