Parashat Emor A Second Chance in Life Saturday, May 2, 2026 / 15 Iyar 5786 Zoom at Noon Tonight – A Second Passover One of the central themes this Shabbat is the bringing of the Omer to the Temple, the first fruits of the trees. The Omer represents the 49 steps we climb from Passover [...]
Parashat Acharei-Kedoshim What is life after death? Saturday, April 25, 2026 Zoom at Noon Join me this Shabbat for the double portion. It begins with Acharei Mot—“After the Death”—recalling the tragic death of Aaron’s two sons, Nadav and Avihu, who brought a “strange fire” before God, teaching us about the awe, responsibility, and discipline required [...]
Parashat Tazria-Metzora What does it mean to be pure? Saturday, April 18, 2026 Parashat Tazria–Metzora invites us to reflect on the profound and often misunderstood concepts of purity (taharah) and impurity (tumah). These categories are not about hygiene or moral worth, but about spiritual states connected to life and death, presence and absence. Moments such [...]
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, 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 [...]
Pharaoh, Power, and the Roots of Antisemitism Watch a conversation exploring the biblical Pharaoh and the enduring patterns of antisemitism in the modern world. Saturday, January 24, (6 Shevat) at NOON ET on Zoom This Shabbat, as we read Parashat Bo, we reach the culmination of the Ten Plagues and the final confrontation between Pharaoh [...]
Join me this Shabbat Parashat Va’era, which recounts the first seven of the ten plagues in Egypt. The question is often asked: why ten plagues instead of one? One traditional answer is that justice unfolds through a process, through persistence and repeated steps. When the Torah teaches, “Justice, justice, shall you pursue,” the repetition reminds [...]
