Roller Coaster Bias
Parshat Shlach
If you want to rocket from 0-60 miles per hour in 2.3 seconds you need to buy a Bugatti Chiron. With 1,500 horsies pumping out of sixteen cylinders, Bugatti Chirons don’t come cheap, they run about 3 million dollars. Surprisingly…
Parshat Shelach 5781
Shelach תשפא Just twenty days shy of a year from the Jewish people’s arrival at Mount Sinai, they began their journey to the promised land, Israel. During that time, the nation had received the Torah, built the Tabernacle, and each tribe…
I Can’t Get Him Out of My Tires
Parshat Shelach 5779
Traveling to the Amazonian jungle in the mid-1800 was dangerous and harrowing. Bringing your entire mishpacha with you would either be described as blindly optimistic or just plain foolish. But when Henry Wickham decamped from England to build a plantation…
Parshat Sh’lach 5779
Parshas Shelach The last paragraph of this week’s Torah portion, contains the commandment to put tzizit on any four-cornered garment that we wear. We fulfill this mitzvah by wearing a Talit when we pray shacharit the morning prayer, and by…