The Quest for the Immortal Shoe
Parshat Lech Lecha 5782
I’m pretty confident I have weird feet. I don’t know if they’re flat, crooked, or inverted, but they don’t seem to fit into most shoes like a hand fits in a glove. If you’re a podiatrist and reading this, please…
Parshat Lech Lecha 5782
Parshat Lech Lecha תשפ"ב This week's portion introduces us to Avraham Avinu, Avraham our forefather, who was so dedicated to Hashem that he made it his life’s mission to teach the world about Him. Hashem, in turn, loved Avraham so much that…
Running out of Storage?
Parshat Lech Lecha 5781
I currently have 31 tabs open on my laptop. These include, but are not limited to; work email inbox, personal email inbox, a few Google Spreadsheets I use to track various work related metrics, an interesting article I saw a…
Lech Lecha 5781
Lech Lecha תשפא This week’s portion introduces us to our Forefather Avraham. Maimonides (Laws of Idol Worship 1:3) tells us of Avraham’s beginning and his greatness. ג) כיון שנגמל איתן זה התחיל לשוטט בדעתו והוא קטן והתחיל לחשוב ביום ובלילה…
Let’s Get Personal
Parshat Lech Lecha 5780
It was the perfect day. Jack had been dating Emily for three years, and he was finally going to pop the question! The setting could not have been more stunning; on a clifftop overlooking the Pacific ocean, at sunset, in…
Parshat Lech Lecha 5780
Parshat Lech Lecha תש"פ In this week's portion, we are introduced to Avraham Avinu, Avraham our forefather. Maimonides writes: רמב"ם הלכות עבודה זרה פרק א א כיון שנגמל איתן זה התחיל לשוטט בדעתו והוא קטן והתחיל לחשוב ביום ובלילה והיה…
Ironman, Bourbon and Bats
Parshat Lech Lecha 5779
There’s a dial somewhere, that spans the continuum from None to Enough. It describes how much people work out, and 99.9% of the populations gets dialed in somewhere in the middle. But there are select individuals who break the dial…