Parashat Shmini After the Rebirth Parashat Shmini – The Meaning of Eight and Rebirth Parashat Shmini comes immediately after the eight days of Passover, and its very name—Shmini, meaning “eighth”—invites us to reflect on the significance of the number eight in Jewish thought. While seven represents the natural order of creation, such as the seven [...]
Shabbat of Passover Teaching
Parashat Tzav The Great Shabbat – Waiting in the Wings for Freedom What is so great about this Shabbat? It is the Shabbat before Passover—the Shabbat when the Israelites took the idols of Egypt, the lambs that the Egyptians worshipped, and set them aside to be slaughtered four days later. Moses pleaded with Pharaoh not [...]
Parasha Vayikra A New Beginning – The Book of Leviticus What is our divine calling? n Parashat Vayikra, we begin a new book of the Torah. As its name suggests, Vayikra—“And He called”—invites us to ask: What is our divine calling, and how do we learn to hear and respond to it? This book teaches [...]
Double Parasha – Vayakhel Pikudei The Shabbat of the Congregation When Moses congregates all the people around the completed Tent of Meeting “Vayakhel” means “gathering.” Moses assembles the People of Israel after the completion of the Mishkan—the Tent of Meeting—the first form of the Temple, the sanctuary of God among the people. Now that the [...]
Parashat Ki Tisa Saturday, March 7, 2026, Zoom at Noon Many times, in life, just as we are engaged in the holiest work, we encounter pushback from the opposite side — a negative force that seeks to resist it. This is not random or accidental. It is built into both the physical and spiritual worlds: action and [...]
Shabbat, February 21, 2026 - Parashat Terumah—Building the House of God on earth. How do we build a heavenly footstool for God on earth? Last Shabbat, we explored the foundations of justice—the courts and ethical systems that God commands us to establish so that He can dwell among us. Justice creates the conditions for God’s [...]
Shabbat, February 14, 2026 - Parashat Mishpatim—Forming the Justice System. After receiving the Ten Commandments from God at Mount Sinai, Moses descended from the mountain—carrying the tablets from the place where Heaven and Earth met, if only for a moment. Revelation did not remain at the summit. It was brought down into human life. Now [...]
Shabbat Yitro- Ten Commandments Watch the teaching for Shabbat, Parashat Yitro—often considered the most important Parasha in the Torah—where we receive the Ten Commandments—AKA “The Law”, the foundation of law itself. We will reflect on how at Sinai, a group of former slaves becomes a people bound not by force, but by—engraved principles—covenant, responsibility, and [...]
A special Shabbat of Song – Crossing the Sea, the Birth of a Nation Saturday, January 31 (6 Shevat) This Shabbat, as we read Parashat Beshalach, we encounter more miracles at the Sea of Reeds than in Egypt itself. This is the decisive moment of belief—the narrow place between the rock and the hard place—when [...]
