By Ariel Shalem Parshat Terumah is dedicated by Shlomo Shinnar, MD, PhD, in honor of Baruch Sheinson. View a Printable Version | View a Source Sheet The Mishkan (Sanctuary), the traveling “House of God” built by the Israelites in the desert, is an elaborate structure built of royal and expensive materials. Reading the passages that describe […]
By Rabbi Norman Lamm, PhD Parshat Mishpatim is dedicated by David and Marsha Nimmer, “in the prayer of bequeathing a healthy world to our children.” View a Printable Version lView a Source Sheet In this week’s Torah portion of Mishpatim, G-d commands the Jewish people concerning the laws of borrowing and guarding property.[1] The relations […]
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 […]
