By Rabbi Yonatan Neril Parshat Yitro is sponsored by Aryeh Moshe Mellman. “I dedicate this parsha to my grandfathers for whom I am named, Morris (Moshe) Warach and Louis (Leib) Shapiro, z”l.” View a Printable Version | View a Source Sheet The Ten Commandments given in this week’s Torah portion Yitro culminate with the command not […]
By Rabbi Shmuel Simenowitz Parshat B’shalach is sponsored by Baruch and Ora Sheinson, in honor of their daughter, Miriam Machla Sheinson. View a Printable Version | View a Source Sheet Arguably, no other Torah portion is as intimately aligned with water as Parshat B’shalach. From the miraculous parting of the Red Sea, the watershed event of […]
By Rabbi Shaul David Judelman This week’s Dvar Torah is sponsored by: Pravda Vodka: ‘The Best Kosher Vodka in the world.’ View a Printable Version | View a Source Sheet The original Jewish geography, according to our mystical tradition, has three components- Place, Time and Soul (Olam, Shanah and Nefesh). These are the basic dimensions in […]
By Dr. David Goldblatt View a Printable Version | View a Source Sheet Divine chastisement, brought in the form of affliction and suffering, can be an effective, if undesirable, instrument for individual and social learning. The ten plagues that G-d visits on the Egyptians and their Pharaoh in this week’s portion Va’era (as well as in […]
By Udi Hammerman The parsha of Shemot is dedicated by Shoshana Shinnar in honor of the Flatbush Women’s Tefillah. View a Printable Version | View a Source Sheet Shemot, the Hebrew title of the Book of Exodus, means “names”, suggesting how significant the issue of identity will be as the saga of Jewish slavery, redemption […]
