Darchei Noam דרכי נועם

I dedicate this dvar Torah in honor of my parents, יוסף בן מנחם ושושנה פרל, whose yahrzeit was on the 4th of Iyar, and mother  בולא בת...

Over the past months, we’ve embarked on a collective journey every Shabbat from slavery in Egypt, to freedom and on to Har Sinai. In...

Parshat Mishpatim is a favorite of mine, and probably other lawyers as well. The parsha is replete with laws and for someone like me it...

Last year, my class had to write a seven to ten page paper on a topic that mattered to us. I chose women in the IDF. Halfway into...

This past week I retired from Pediatrics. To mark the occasion, I cut this stethoscope as a symbol that, since I don’t need it anymore,...

Darchei Noam, thank God, has grown tremendously over the 18 years since we began: we now have three times as many member families as when...

Parshat Beshellach Feb 4, 2023 י״ג שבט תשפ״ג Today I bring to you an interpretation of a passage of history in the Talmud that shows...

Mah tovu ohalecha Yaakov. Great to be back. Have missed all of you. Hope your yamim tovim have been full of inspiration and joy. Today’s...

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,...

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...

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...

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....

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