Be Kind! (a personal summary of 53 Torah laws)
Ah, Mishpatim. The Torah portion we love to hate, because it’s got the verse about an eye for an eye, …
Category Archives: Weekly Torah portion
Welcoming the Other
There is a new scam afoot that specifically targets religious organizations, including many Jewish congregations. Thieves create email addresses that …
Our Mission: To Lift Light
This week’s Torah portion is filled with events that have been discussed at length over the centuries. (You’ll find it …
A Time to Build and a Time to Refrain from Building
In our fast-paced world it’s rare to take a sabbatical. A week’s vacation here and there is more the norm. …
Building Together
A couple of years ago, Professor Arnold M. Eisen counted the number of times the word kol appears in Exodus …
Christmas and Me
In these few days before Christmas, a simple phrase from this week’s Torah portion becomes especially relevant to me. It …
Recognizing The Ones We Love
Here in Florida, we’re a bit behind the rest of the nation, but the weather is finally changing, and so …
Hope
It’s been a long couple of weeks, bracketed by the murders at the Tree of Life Synagogue and Kristallnacht tomorrow …
Doing the Wrong Thing
This week‘s Torah portions begins with the phrase “and he saw.” Over his lifetime, Abraham saw many things. Not all …
Who Are You?
Names matter. Our names define us, identify us, separate us. But if our names identify us, what happens when we …
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