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One Mitzvah - 6th Annual Reverse Tashlich Water Torah

This week’s Torah Portion, Parshat Nitzavim, is the perfect parsha to proceed Tikkun HaYam’s Sixth Annual Reverse Tashlich. If you’ve...

Blessings and Curses - Ki Tavo

This Week’s Torah Portion, Parshat Ki Tavo, contains an account of an incredible ceremony that was to take place once the Israelites...

The Free or Closed Sea? - Shoftim

This week’s parsha, Parshat Shoftim, has powerful sections that have historically guided the Jewish people, today motivate the work of...

For Lack of a Nail - Re'eh

There is an old ditty that I remember from my childhood that went like this: For lack of a nail, the shoe was lost. For lack of a shoe, a...

One Fish. Two Fish. Red Fish. Blue Fish.

The week’s Torah Portion, Bamidbar, is the first parsha in the Book of Numbers. The Book is called Numbers because the entire parsha is...

Everything is on Loan, and We're Going to Have to Give it Back

Having worked for 23 years for Hillel on college campuses, I learned the value and power of a sabbatical. Not that I ever got one, but...

An Eye for an Eye and a Tooth for a Tooth, So the Whole World Will Be Blind and Toothless

A Drop of Torah This week's Parsha, Parshat Emor, continues the Levitical theme of ritual cleanliness, specifically concerning the...

Ethical Boundaries: Land and Sea

A Drop of Torah Like last week's double parsha of Tazria-Metzorah, this week we have another coupled parsha in Acharei Mote & Kedoshim....

An Apple A Day Keeps the Doctor Away

Red Delicious There was a time when, if a child wanted to do something nice at school, that student would bring an apple for a teacher....

Why Not the Fish? - Parshat VaYikra

A Drop of Torah This week’s Torah portion, VaYikra, is the first parsha in the Book of Leviticus. It details the sacrifices that were...