Thoughts on Parashat Bereshit (Gen 1:1-6:8) The earth brought forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants of every kind, and trees of every kind bearing fruit with the seed in it. And God saw that this was good […]God said, “Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and birds that fly above the earth across the […]
Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkot
Menachem Mirski is a rabbinic student at the Ziegler School of the American Jewish University. He is the first of four and perhaps five native Polish speaking future teachers and leaders of the remarkable Polish Renewal led by Beit Polska. Menachem arrived in late August to begin his rabbinic studies on the heels of a […]
KEE TAVOH
September 23rd, 2016/20 Elul 5776 – This week’s Torah reading celebrates the bringing of the first fruits (Deut. 26: 1 – 11) While in the forty years of wanderings the observance of some of the Torah’s teachings were on a theoretical level. Now during the last parts of Moses address in Deuteronomy he directs the people […]
Preparation for High Holidays
Parashat Ke Tetse; Deutrronomy 21:10 to 25: 19 Have you ever wondered why the Shabbatot and other Jewish holidays begin in the evening? The rest of the world begins its observances and celebrations in the morning but Jews maintain this odd custom. We begin in the evening. The technical answer to the question is contained in the ordering of the words in […]
Parashat Re’eh: Two Roads
By Dr. Halina Postek Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, […]
Torah Portion Re’eh September 2-3, 2016
29th of Av, 5775 – This week’s Torah portion Re’eh has a one word title. The title opens a series of observations set forth by Moses as he concludes his life’s work. Reading this week’s Torah portion and the entire book of Deuteronomy as an ethical will lends gravitas to the moment. Indeed the book is divided […]
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