Weekly D’var: Acharei Mot-Kedoshim

Weekly D’var: Acharei Mot-Kedoshim

This week’s parsha is Acharei-Mot Kedoshim. Chapter 16 details the Yom Kippur service, one of the most important days of the year. Within the long, detailed instructions for the service is a very peculiar ritual. The Kohen Gadol (High Priest) takes two goats and...
Weekly D’var: Tzav

Weekly D’var: Tzav

In this week’s parasha, Tzav, focuses on the laws of sacrifices and priestly duties. The emphasis is on the instructions given to the priests regarding the burnt offerings, the meal offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings. These offerings were an...
Weekly D’var: Ki Tisa

Weekly D’var: Ki Tisa

Can money teach us a lesson about equality, even though no two people have the same financial situation? Parshat Ki Tisa presents an opportunity to learn about equality from that which is usually not equal. The Parsha recounts the collection of funds for the Mishkan,...
Weekly D’var: Terumah

Weekly D’var: Terumah

This week’s parsha finds the Israelites in the desert being instructed to build the mishkan, along with all of the required gathering of gold, silver, acacia wood… the list goes on. Most of the parsha consists of directions for where things are to go, what they should...
Weekly D’var: Yitro

Weekly D’var: Yitro

In perhaps one of the most iconic moments in the Torah, this upcoming Shabbat we will be reading Parshat Yitro, which sees the Jewish people receiving the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai; however, I actually want to focus on the namesake of the parsha, a man named...
Holocaust Remembrance Day 2023

Holocaust Remembrance Day 2023

In their research on listening to survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides, Bronwen E. Low and Emmanuelle Sonntag note listeners’ problematic tendencies towards one of two responses.  On the one hand, they can regard the narratives as so unfamiliar and foreign...
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