This week we are in the Torah Portion Vayeira. Initially my plan was to continue our conversation on faith but something jumped out at me as I was reading this week’s Torah portion…
Every year after the holiday of Simchat Torah I get so excited about starting the Torah over…
This is the first Shabbat of 2017. We are in the Torah Portion of Vayigash which means…
One Minute Lessons from The Torah: Vayetze
Before I left Philadelphia, I told Ollie, the guy who cuts my hair to cut it really short in hopes that I could make it through my time in Israel without getting a haircut. I was wrong, because the other day when I woke up in the morning and saw myself in the mirror, it was like my hair had discovered it’s own freedom…
This week we enter into the story of Noah. The story of Noah comes after the story of creation. We were told in last weeks portion that God created the world and declared טוֹב מְאֹד, it was very good. Then by the end of the portion, it seems as if,God has what a friend of mine…
Belief in God, therefore, has to do… with human nature, with the way individual men and women act, with their attitudes, their ideas of what is good and what is bad, with their ideals… If we believe that life is worthwhile, that it is good, that, in spite of sickness and accidents, in spite of poverty…
