Parshas Emor 5786
Counting the Omer There is a mitzvah mentioned in this week’s Torah portion, that is relevant to our current time period; the days between the holidays of Passover and Shavuos. It is known as Sefiras Ha’omer, the counting of the…
Show Me Your Best Awkward Silence Parshas Acharei Mos/Kedoshim 5786
Natural resources are a hot topic right now, as the earth continues to fill with more people but not more resources. In the era of technological leaps and blindingly fast innovation, humans also seek more resources than ever before. In…
Parshas Acharei Mos and Kedoshim 5786
Negative Surroundings ‘Do not perform the practices of the land of Egypt in which you dwelled; and do not perform the practices of the land of Canaan to which I bring you...’ (Vayikra 18:3) Before detailing the list of forbidden…
What would you grab is your city was burning? Parshas Tazria Metzora 5786
In the spring of 1453, the great city of Constantinople stood at the edge of collapse. For more than a thousand years it had been one of the most important cities in the world, the capital of the Byzantine Empire,…
Parshas Tazria Metzora 5786
When Words Become Visible What Tzara’as teaches us about the reality of speech Parshiyos Tazria and Metzora are among the most puzzling sections in the Torah. The Torah spends so much time discussing discolorations on skin, changes in hair color,…
Geographical Slavery Parshas Tzav/ Shabbos Hagadol 5786
Pithom, Egypt 1314 BCE Shimon stomped into the house kicking up dust, and wordlessly headed straight to the back of the house to change out of his work clothes. Rachel instinctively knew that he was coming from his brother’s house.…
Parshas Tzav/Passover 5786
Why say Thank you? Rabbi Chaim Fink If God put us in Egypt in the first place, why should we say thank you when He finally set us free? Unbearable Agony The group already felt pushed to their limits before…
Wanna Get Elevated For Being Wrong? Parshas Vayikra 5786
If a man told you in 1968 that within a decade hundreds of millions of people would starve to death every single year, that by 1985 the earth’s population would be beaten down to a more “acceptable” 1.5 billion, and…
Parshas Vayikra 5786 – Learning to Listen
Learning to Listen A Torah Study Guide for Chavruta Learning — Partners Detroit We live in a world of noise. Everyone is talking, texting, technology-ing. Fewer people are listening. And yet the capacity to truly hear — another person, a…
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