THE WANDERING JEW In the past two weeks’ Torah portions, we read about the Jews accepting the Torah. In this week’s Torah portion, the Jews have left Mt. Sinai and […]
Weekly Torah Portion
Insight and themes on the weekly Torah portion (parshah) read aloud in synagogue.
Rabbi Shalom Schwadron, the unforgettable maggid (inspirational speaker) of Jerusalem, told the following story. There was once a Chassidic rabbi walking with some of his disciples during the winter. As […]
ARE YOU GOLDBERG? In this week’s Torah portion, we come across a very special mitzvah, to track down and kill all practitioners of witchcraft. Let’s imagine for a moment what […]
KOSHER KOLOR WAR! The highlight of this week’s Torah portion is the giving of the Torah. As soon as the Jewish people received the Torah, they rushed to put the […]
What does it mean to be a Jew? When I describe myself as a Jew, what does that really mean? It is readily apparent that none of the normal categories […]
HEADS UP The main story of this week’s Torah portion is the SPLITTING of the Red Sea. The Sages tell us that G-d wanted the entire world to witness this […]
EXODUS 2014 This week’s Torah portion tells the story of the Jewish People leaving Egypt. Our sages tell us that on the night of Pesach (Passover), it is not good […]
A man walks down the street He says why am I soft in the middle now? Why am I soft in the middle? The rest of my life is so […]
THE RED TEAM AND THE GREEN TEAM This week’s Torah portion describes seven of the Ten Plagues. I would like to focus on the first two. The very first plague […]
In the opening chapter of Parshas Shemos, we read about the beginnings of Jewish slavery in Egypt. One of Pharaoh’s main objectives in enslaving the Jewish people was to end […]
