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