Pesach II
Pesach II תשפא As we approach Pesach 2021, it is impossible not to think about Pesach 2020. Covid 19 was very new, a cure or vaccine was nowhere in sight, and families and friends were forced to celebrate the holiday…
Pesach 5781
Pesach תשפא The Festival of Pesach is, by far, the Jewish calendar’s most celebrated holiday in. In terms of popularity, it trumps even Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the “High Holidays.” The theme of freedom that we celebrate on Pesach…
Shabbat Hachodesh
החודש - Shabbat HaChodesh On the last day of the month of Adar, just as the first sliver of the new moon signaling the beginning of Nissan appeared, Hashem taught Moshe and Aharon the Mitzvah of sanctifying the new month…
Parshat Ki Tisa
Ki Tisa תשפא In this week’s parsha Ki Tisa, we meet the principal craftsman for the Tabernacle and all its accoutrements, Betzalel ben Uri ben Chur from the tribe of Judah. (Exodus 31:1-5) (א) וַיְדַבֵּר יְדֹוָד אֶל משֶׁה לֵּאמֹר: (ב)…
Purim 5781
Purim תשפא Purim is the most festive and happy holiday in the Jewish calendar. It is the only holiday that carries with it an obligation to drink wine to the point that one doesn’t know the difference between “Cursed be…
Parshat Shekalim 5781
Parshat Shekalim תשפא Although this coming Shabbat is Parshat Zachor with its own special additional Torah reading and is the Shabbat on which we focus how Amalek (including, generations later, his great-great-great grandson, Haman), warred with us and tried to…
Parshat Yitro 5781
Parshat Yitro תשפא Yitro (in English Jethro), the person for whom this week’s portion is named, should have been the very last person in the world to have a portion in the Holy Torah named for him. Indeed, not only…
Parshat Beshalach 5781
Parshat Beshalach This Shabbat, parashatבשלח (Beshalach), is called שבת שירה (Shabbat Shira), the Shabbat of the Song, because it contains the song that the Jewish people sang to Hashem in appreciation of their salvation from the pursuing Egyptian army at…
Parshat Bo 5781
Parshat Bo תשפא This week’s portion, בא – Bo, describes Hashem’s last three plagues brought on the Egyptians and the Jews’ exodus from Egypt. The tenth plague, מכת בכורות, the killing of the first born, was the straw that broke…
Parshat Shemot 5781
Parshas Shemos A New Book Begins: What’s the book called? We finished the book of Genesis and are embarking on the second book of the Torah; The Book of Exodus. In this book, we encounter the first era of persecution…
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