By Rabbi Akiva Wolff View a Printable Version| View a Source Sheet Our Torah portion begins with the following words: Behold I set before you today a blessing and a curse; a blessing if you obey the commandments of the Lord your G-d, which I command you this day, and a curse if you do […]
By Rebbetzin Chana Bracha Siegelbaum For Anne Werner, in memory of a wise woman who understood and cared for the environment, dedicated by her daughter Deborah Lesser and Michael Lesser. View a Printable Version | View a Source Sheet The Land of Israel is described as “A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, […]
By Akiva Gersh View a Printable Version | View a Source Sheet There is a well known Midrash [1] (an originally oral teaching that comes to explain the written Torah) that tells of G-d taking Adam on a tour of the world shortly after his creation. At the end of the tour, G-d says to Adam, “Now, make sure […]
By Matthew Mausner View a Printable Version | View a Source Sheet “…You have dwelt long enough at this mountain.Turn and journey, and come to the mountain of the Amorites and to all its neighboring places, in the plain, on the mountain, and in the lowland, and in the south and by the seashore, the land […]
By Tuvia Aronson The journeys of Bnei Yisrael through the desert serve as a paradigm for our connections with the various parts of the land upon which we tread. The early Torah commentators are puzzled by the seemingly extra words used to describe the 42 pitstops along the great hike in the wilderness. (Dr. […]
