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Sep 1, 2018
6 min

Remember Your Story

Shabbat shalom. Parshat “Ki Tavo” has some interesting instructions for the Jews to carry out upon arriving in Israel. One on which I’d l...

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Bob Karasov

Aug 5, 2018
6 min

Hard to believe?

Dvar Torah: Parshat Eikev. August 4, 1018 Eikev is the kind of Parsha that make it hard to believe in God. It opens with the message tha...

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Wendy Khabie

Jul 15, 2018
4 min

Cities of Refuge

AREI MIKLAT Several months ago, as I usually do, I spent Shabbos afternoon on the sofa in our living room catching up on New Yorker magaz...

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Alfie Marcus

May 7, 2018
4 min

Fixing the Shattered Divine Light

What does it mean to accept the Torah? To what extent is a knowledge of the natural world a part of accepting the Torah? The Maharal wrot...

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Rabbi Max Davis

Mar 25, 2018
6 min

To Nosh or Not to Nosh

Shabbat HaGadol 5778 I. Background A. Mishnah, Pesachim 10 [Then] they set [food] before him. He dips the lettuce before he reaches the...

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Judy Snitzer

Mar 17, 2018
7 min

All these Mitzvot are to remember the Exodus

Dvar Torah 3/17/18 Judy Snitzer Its two weeks before Pesach, Today is rosh chodesh Nisan and I have come to understand that Pesach has a ...

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Bob Karasov

Jan 7, 2018
6 min

Cognitive Dissonance

Lately, I have been reading the parsha, without looking at the commentary. I read the text to see what questions emerge and then try to t...

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Judy Shapiro

Oct 22, 2017
7 min

When does Community become oppressive?

I have often puzzled over the story of the Tower of Babel, which comes near the end of our parsha today. The 9 sentences that form this ...

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Alfie Marcus

Oct 7, 2017
4 min

G-d is Unknowable, Shake that Lulav.

2nd day sukkot 5778 So, we shake the lulav and Etrog and we sort of proclaim like Chabad, G-d is here there and everywhere. And we obser...

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Naomi Oxman

Sep 30, 2017
12 min

Yom Kippur Dvar Torah

YK DVAR TORAH SEPT 30, 2017 DN (naomi oxman) Dedicate to mom on bd today, ‘til 120! Visit home from NY grad school, out of clear blue, mo...

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