Parshat Vaetchanan 5779
Parshat Vaetchanan תשע"ט ואתחנן is the second portion in the last book of the Torah, דברים - Deuteronomy. The book of Deuteronomy is called משנה תורה, which means a review of the Torah. In this book, Moshe reviews many…
Tanner Street Trouble
Parshat Devarim/Tisha B’Av
As a child, Will always seemed to gravitate to more violent forms of play than the other boys in his neighborhood. Even when his mother took away his toy guns and swords, Will always found a way to turn innocuous…
How to Survive a Kidnapping
Parshat Matot/Masei 5779
Disclaimer: This email contains depictions of a graphic crime, readers please use caution if reading in front of children. There are two dominant theories about triathletes. The first is that they are supremely cowardly human beings, and spend their life…
Parshat Matot/Masei 5779
Parshat Matot – Masei It is difficult for us to appreciate the power of speech. We live in a materialistic world, and, therefore, actions, which we can see and evaluate, take on greater importance than speech, which seems to be…
Avocado is Back in the Headlines
Parshat Pinchas
Avocado is the headline hogger of the fruit world. There are about 2,000 species of fruit eaten by human beings, from pedestrian fruits like the apple, banana, clementine, and date, to the more exotic ones like the atemoya, bignay, calabash,…
I have Seen the Writing on the Wall
Parshat Balak 5779
This is a rerun of a previous Shabbos email. My wife did not re-give birth to our eight year old daughter, but there will be an update at the end of the email…. I have seen the writing on the…
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