Parshat Bo 5780
Parshat Bo תש"פ On Rosh HaShanah this year, the Jewish Calendar year changed from 5779 to 5780 (“Rosh HaShanah” means the “head of the year” or the beginning of the new year.) This number represents the years that have passed…
Energy Comes from Where?
Parshat Bo 5779
Whether you have a watch or not, you know roughly what time it is. That is due to an almond sized beautiful piece of gray matter right in middle of your brain called the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus controls many primary…
Parshat Bo 5779
Parshat Bo תשעט The Egyptians have suffered through seven of the ten plagues, and after three more they will send the Jewish people out of Egypt. The time has come to prepare the Jewish people for the holiday of Pesach.…
Parshat Bo 5778
Parshat Bo The Jews are finally out of Egypt. By killing every first born, Hashem delivered the knockout punch to Pharaoh who could not get rid of them fast enough. This chapter in Jewish history, the slavery and the process…
You Think it’s Cold? Bo 5778
It is freezing outside, quite literally. It has been freezing outside, quite literally, since a week ago. The coldest we’ve seen in the last week has been 5 degrees Farenheit, and the balmiest has been just below the freezing point.…
Honey, We Need to Talk – Parshat Bo 5777
It was 8:30am and Josh already felt like he was buried under two tons of dirt, all his movements slow and belabored. He had been at his workstation since six, and he was scheduled straight through 7 pm. If he…
Bo 5776
When we think of the earliest explorers of our fledgling country, we tend to think of rugged adventurers of the Daniel Boone genre, people who would kill a bear with their bare hands and then eat its raw flesh for…