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…

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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…

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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…

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