May 13, 2022 – Parshat Emor: What We Don’t Do: “On that same day you shall hold a celebration; it shall be a sacred occasion for you; you shall not work at your occupations. This is a law for all time in all your settlements, throughout the ages.“ Click here to read the full post.
May 6, 2022 – Parshat Kedoshim: The True Meaning of Tzedakah: “You shall have an honest balance, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I the Lord am your God who freed you from the land of Egypt.“ Click here to read the full post.
April 29, 2022 – Parshat Acharei Mot: Starts With You: “Aaron is to offer his own bull of sin offering, to make expiation for himself and for his household.!” Click here to read the full post.
April 21, 2022 – Passover days 7 and 8: Running Toward: “Then the Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry out to Me? Tell the Israelites to go forward!” Click here to read the full post.
April 15, 2022 – Passover: Saw you in Egypt, From the Passover Haggadah: “In each and every generation a person must view themselves as though they personally left Egypt” Click here to read the full post.
April 8, 2022 – Parshat Metzorah: Nerves: “The owner of the house shall come and tell the Kohen, saying, “Something like a plague has appeared in my house.”” Click here to read the full post.
April 1, 2022 – Parshat Tazria: The Gossip Challenge: “The person shall be impure as long as the disease is present. Being impure, that person shall dwell apart, in a dwelling outside the camp.” Click here to read the full post.
March 25, 2022 – Parshat Shmini: The Other Other White Meat: “But these you may eat among all the winged swarming things that walk on fours: all that have, above their feet, jointed legs to leap with on the ground.” Click here to read the full post.
March 18, 2022 – Parshat Tzav: The Eternal Flame: “A perpetual fire shall be kept burning on the altar, not to be extinguished.” Click here to read the full post.
March 11, 2022 – Parshat Vayikra: Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Hooves: “The burnt offering shall be flayed and cut up into sections.” Click here to read the full post.
March 4, 2022 – Parshat Pekudei: Have a Cookie: “Then they brought the Mishkan to Moses, with the Tent and all its furnishings: its clasps, its planks, its bars, its posts, and its sockets.” Click here to read the full post.
February 25, 2022 – Parshat Vayakhel: Build: “Moses had this proclamation made throughout the camp: “Let no one make further gifts for the sanctuary!” So the people stopped bringing.” Click here to read the full post.
February 17, 2022 – Parshat Ki Tisa: Searching: “Moses would take the Tent and pitch it outside the camp, at some distance from the camp. It was called the Tent of Meeting, and whoever sought God would go out to the Tent of Meeting that was outside the camp.”Click here to read the full post.
February 11, 2022 – Parshat Tetzaveh: Pure, Beaten Olive Oil: “Instruct the Israelites to bring you pure oil of beaten olives for lighting, for kindling an eternal lamp.” Click here to read the full post.
February 4, 2022 – Parshat Terumah: Buildings: “See and make according to the form that you are shown on the mountain.” Click here to read the full post.
January 28, 2022 – Parshat Mishpatim: Strangers: “You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.“ Click here to read the full post.
January 21, 2022 – Parshat Yitro: Closer Than We Think: “And the LORD said to Moses, “I will come to you in a thick cloud, in order that the people may hear when I speak with you and so trust you ever after.” Then Moses reported the people’s words to the LORD.” Click here to read the full post.
January 14, 2022 – Parshat Beshalach: Seeking and Finding: “Some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather, but they found nothing.” Click here to read the full post.
January 7, 2022 – Parshat Bo: The Ninth Plague “A person could not see their brother, and for three days no one got up from where they were; but all the Israelites enjoyed light in their dwellings.” Click here to read the full post.
December 17, 2021 – Parshat Vayechi: Love and Memory Loss “Noticing Joseph’s sons, Israel asked, “Who are these?“ Click here to read the full post.
December 10, 2021 – Parshat Vayigash: Believing the Unbelievable “For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.” Click here to read the full post.
December 3, 2021 – Parshat Miketz: God’s Language “And Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Pharaoh’s dreams are one and the same: God has told Pharaoh what He is about to do.” Click here to read the full post.
November 26, 2021 – Parshat Vayeshev: The Shamash “Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph; he forgot him.” Click here to read the full post.
November 19, 2021 – Parshat Vayishlach: Gifts “But Jacob said, ‘No, I pray you; if you would do me this favor, accept from me this gift; for to see your face is like seeing the face of God, and you have received me favorably.’” Click here to read the full post.
November 12, 2021 – Parhat Vayeitzei: What’s in a Name? “She conceived again and bore a son, and declared, “This time I will praise the Lord.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.“ Click here to read the full post.
November 5, 2021 – Parshat Toldot: Food “Prepare a dish for me such as I like, and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my innermost blessing before I die.” Click here to read the full post.
October 30, 2021 – Parshat Chayei Sarah: Three Years Since Pittsburgh / ” Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he took Rebecca as his wife. Isaac loved her, and thus found comfort after his mother’s death.” Click here to read the full post.
October 23, 2021 – Parshat Vayeira / “And Abraham named that site “the Lord will see” which why it is said, On the mount of the LORD there is vision.” Click here to read the full post.
October 15, 2021- Parshat Lech Lecha / “Birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.” Click here to read the full post.
October 8, 2021 – Parshat Noah / “Come out of the ark, together with your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives.” Click here to read the full post.
October 1, 2021 – Parshat Bereshit / “This is the story of the generations of Adam. On the day God created Adam, God made him in the image of God.” Click here to read the full post.
September 24, 2021 – Shabbat Sukkot: Put the Load Right on Me / “And God said, I will go in the lead and will lighten your burden.” Click here to read the full post.
September 17, 2021 – Parshat Ha’azinu: Rain Plan / “May my teaching come down as the rain, My speech distill as the dew, like showers on young growth, like droplets on the grass.” Click here to read the full post.
September 10, 2021 – Parshat Vayeilech: United We Stand / “When all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God in the place that God will choose, you shall read this Teaching aloud in the presence of all Israel.” Click here to read the full post.
September 3, 2021 – Parshat Nitzavim-Vayeilech: Hidden Things / “The hidden acts belong to Hashem our God; but the overt acts are for us and our children to forever apply all the words of this Teaching.” Click here to read the full post.
August 27, 2021 – Parshat Ki Tavo: Heads and Tails / “He [your foe] shall be your creditor, but you shall not be his; he shall be the head and you the tail.” Click here to read the full post.
August 20, 2021 – Parshat Ki Teitzei: Grounded / “You shall have a spike in addition to your gear, and it will be that when you sit outside, you shall dig with it; you shall cover up your excrement.” Click here to read the full post.
August 14, 2021 – Parshat Shoftim: The Warrior’s Armor / “When you take the field against your enemies, and see horses and chariots – forces larger than yours – have no fear of them, for the Lord your God is with you, the one who brought you out of the land of Egypt.” Click here to read the full post.