Parshat Emor 5785
This week’s portion contains the mitzvah “to count the omer,” one which, at this time of the year, we are in the midst of fulfilling. Starting from the second day of Passover, we make a blessing every night for seven…
Acharei Mot – Kedoshim 5785
This week, because of the way that the calendar works, we read a double portion, Acharei Mot and Kedoshim (last year, for example, they came out on separate weeks). The third verse in Kedoshim (Leviticus 19:3) tells us: (ג) אִישׁ…
Eishes Chayil: Rachel- Jourey at Sea
Rosh Chodesh Lecture Series | Mrs. Racheli Indig
Parshas Tazriah – Metzorah 5785
This coming Shabbat, two portions – Tazriah and Metzorah - will be read in Shul. The main topic of these two portions is the מצורע - “metzorah,” one who is stricken with the malady -צרעת “tzaraat” (or tzaraas). The usual…
Sefirat Haomer – The Counting of the Omer
When the Holy Temple stood, a daily sacrifice was brought every morning and evening. The morning prayer שחרית - Shacharit corresponds to and substitutes for the morning sacrifice and מנחה - Mincha, the afternoon service, corresponds and substitutes for the…
The Seder Companion 5785
This booklet may be used at your seder to help understand the Haggadah. This coming Saturday night, the 15th day of Nissan, we will all be sitting at the first Pesach seder celebrating the Passover holiday. Some of us will…
Pesach 5785
The Festival of Pesach is, by far, Judaism’s most celebrated holiday. In terms of popularity, it trumps even Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the “High Holidays.” The theme of freedom that we celebrate on Pesach resonates so deeply within us…
Shabbat HaChodesh 5785
On the last day of the month of Adar some 3,500 years ago, as the first sliver of the new moon signaling the beginning of the new month Nissan appeared, Hashem taught Moshe and Aharon the mitzvah of sanctifying the…