In this week’s Torah portion, parashat Bo, we read about the death of the Egyptian first-borns, which results from Pharaoh’s unwillingness to let the Israelites go. When I read these verses, I can not even fathom the horror that every Egyptian family must have felt after they had woken up in the morning only to […]
Modeling the Jewish Learning and Humanity of Our Late Teacher Rabbi Michael A. Signer.
An Invitation to a Musical Miracle
Friends Of Jewish Renewal In Poland & Beit Polska Present: Featuring Two Of Poland’s Progressive Jewish Cantorial Soloists – Menachem Mirski and Avigail Geniusz Menachem Mirski, a recent Ph.D. from Poland’s Lublin University, is now attending American Jewish University’s Ziegler Rabbi School. He is also an outstanding vocalist, guitarist, composer and klezmer musician. Avigail Geniusz is […]
The Idea of Brit
Thoughts on Parashah Va’eira. God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the LORD. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and . I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners. I have now heard the moaning of the Israelites because […]
Pharaoh’s hardened heart: the most terrible plague
This week’s parasha, Vaera, deals with one of the most spectacular displays of divine power in the entire Hebrew Bible – with the ten plagues of Egypt. We can only marvel at the scope of divine intervention, which involves a wide variety of animals and (super)natural phenomena unleashed on the people of Egypt. Our focus […]
Torah Commentary for the Book of Exodus 1:1 to 6:1, Shemot
Special Guest Torah Teacher Rabbi Michael Marmur Mandel Provost at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem Recently — the weekend of November 9 and 10, 2017 — Rabbi Marmur visited Warsaw with the board of Overseers of Hebrew Union College. The Beit Warszawa Synagogue community was privileged to host a number of rabbis, professors and board […]
Jews, Pharaoh and Kings
Thoughts on parashat Shemot A new king arose over Egypt who did not know Joseph. And he said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are much too numerous for us. Let us deal shrewdly with them, so that they may not increase; otherwise in the event of war they may join our enemies in […]
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