You have no idea what can come from a little gratitude
By Rabbi Sunny Schnitzer
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This week’s Torah portion is Va’etchanan: Deuteronomy 3:23 - 7:11.
Our Torah portion this week contains an admonition: “Take careful...
Moses’ farewell rebuke
By Rabbi Lizz Goldstein
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This week’s Torah portion is Devarim,
Deuteronomy 1:1-3:22.
We are blessed to have summer camps open again, blessed for the...
When enough is enough
By Sabrina Sojourner
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This week’s Torah portion is Matot-Mase’i,
Numbers 30:2 - 36:13.
With 244 verses, this double parshah is the longest read on...
The encore of Serach bat Asher
By Rabbi James Michaels
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This week’s Torah portion is Pinchas,
Numbers 25:10 - 30:1.
There are some people whom you might meet only once...
What the donkey can teach us
By Rabbi Daniel Plotkin
This week’s Torah portion is Balak, Numbers 22:2 - 25:9.
Parshat Balak is an unusual portion for several reasons. For one thing,...
The water was there all along
By Rabbi Evan J. Krame
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This week’s Torah portion is Chukat, Numbers 19:1 – 22:1.
Singing is what transforms Shabbat into a spiritual delight....
Korach still up to his old tricks
By Rabbah Arlene Berger
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This week’s Torah portion is Korach, Numbers 16:1 - 18:32.
In Numbers 16, we meet Korach, a Levite, a cousin...
The 12 who didn’t go to spy
By Rabbi Daniel Braune-Friedman
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This week’s Torah portion is Shelach, Numbers 13:1 - 15:41.
In Parshat Shelach, the Israelites approach the Promised Land and...
The discipline to do what is permitted
By Rabbi David L. Abramson
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This week’s Torah portion is Naso, Numbers 4:21–7:89.
We read about a fascinating institution, the nazir, or Nazirite, in...
How to treat the ‘uncircumcised heart’
By Saul Golubcow
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This week’s Torah portions are Behar and Bechukotai, Leviticus 25:1-27:34.
Chapter upon chapter of Leviticus is about sacrifices to obtain God’s...
