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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 like to focus has to ...

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 that if we hearken to G...

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 magazines. I tip my hat ...

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 wrote in 1588 “The grass...

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

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 central role in our ...

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 think of solutions. ...

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 story begin with wha...

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 observe nature sometimes ...

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, mom turned to me and a...