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Ruben, Gad, and the America's Cup - Matot-Maasei
This week’s double Torah portion of Matot-Maasei is a difficult part of the Torah. Even as a vegetarian, I can accept the many sections...
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The Species We Save Just Might Be Our Own - Pinchas
This Week's Torah Portion, Parshat Pinchas, has some very interesting stories. There is, yet again, another round of instructions for how...
A Righteous Uprising
This week’s Torah Portion, Parshat Korach, recounts the story of yet another rebellion against the leadership of Moses and Aaron. Korach,...
Milk, Honey, and Water
This week’s Torah Portion, Parshat Shelach Lecha, is another one of the Parshiot that does not mention water at all. Milk and Honey? Yes,...
Look Up
The Torah tells us that Moses was the greatest prophet who ever lived. Unlike other prophets to whom God spoke through dreams and...
May God Bless You
This week’s Parsha, Parshat Naso, contains one of the most beautiful and familiar passages in the entire Torah. It is the Priestly...
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....
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