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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Eikev - "If you listen"

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Parshas Eikev  opens and closes with two famous passages in which the Torah teaches us that the Jewish people's entire fortune depends ...
Monday, July 22, 2013

Shimon HaTzadik

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שמעון הצדיק היה משירי כנסת הגדולה, הוא היה אומר, על שלשה דברים העולם עומד: על התורה ועל העבודה ועל גמילות חסדים. Shimon the Tzadik was ...
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Thursday, July 11, 2013

Devarim - "How Can I Alone Carry Your Trouble, Your Burden, and Your Disputes?"

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Parhas Devarim  begins with the first of Moses' parting addresses to the Jewish people, in which he reviews their history and rebukes t...
Friday, July 5, 2013

Mattos-Masei - The Soldiers' Offering

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In Parshas Mattos  we read of the war that God commanded the Jewish people to wage against the Midianites in vengeance against their effort...
Thursday, July 4, 2013

The Mitzva of Patriotism

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Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all who are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem t...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

Pinchas - The Zealotry of Phinehas

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The previous parsha  ended with the the violent act of zealotry of Phinehas, who killed a Jewish man that was engaging in public fornicatio...
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Questions from a College Student

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Some time ago, I received the following series of questions from a (non-Jewish) college student from a course she was taking. These were q...
Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Tisha B’Av – The Ninth of Av

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On the Ninth of Av it was decreed on our fathers that they would not enter the Land (of Israel) [ Bamidbar 14], the Temple was destroyed t...