Divrei Torah 5782

Here's the Thing

We are deep into Sefer D’varim, the “Book of Words.” The Hebrew word davar, in addition to “word,” can also signify a thing, an object,...

Direct Experience

This week we begin the book of Devarim, in which Moshe recaps the 40 years of the Jews’ wanderings in the wilderness. He begins with the...

Fighting to get in

D’var Torah Parshat Emor 5782 Ed Rapoport May 14,2022 There is a tragic story at the end of parshat Emor that gives a lot of specific...

Torah and the Ways of the World

2nd Day Pesach 5782 Chag Semeach For the memory of my father Yonah ben Yosef Yitzhak, a kind compassionate man who passed away in 1992....

Terumah: A Look at Inner Architecture

Parshat Terumah 5782 “Mishenichnas Adar”. Just welcomed adar rishon in our leap year. I am certain that the rabbis address the question...

Ever Striving

Parshat Vayeytse 5782 YAAKOV’S LADDER – the Striver What was Yaakov seeing in the ladder? Was it DNA? Or a quantum field? What about life...

Melchizedek and the Yeshiva of Shem and Eber

Parshat Lech Lecha 5782 In our parasha after the battle of the kings in the plain Avram meets King Melchizedek of Salem who gives Abram...

Why do Mitzvot?

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