Archive for 2019
New Technology-Old Technology
Looking around our congregational sanctuary and you will see much in the way of old technology: Torah scrolls, candle sticks,
Giving
After the near-sacrifice of Yitzchok (Isaac), Avraham realizes it is time for Yitzchok to get married. From the sequence
Sensitivity to Others Is Not only For Great Sages, but For All of Us
I spent my first four years of marriage as a member of Ner Israel’s Kollel Avodas Levi. During the
Embrace the Magic of Shabbat
I would like to invite you to join me in the KOT Shabbat Project Challenge. The idea is simple and
The Ten Tests: the Forerunner of the Ten Commandments
Our Sages, in Ethics of the Fathers, state that Abraham was tested ten times and withstood all of them. It
Fetch a Morsel of Bread
“Fetch a morsel of bread…” – from here [we learn that] the righteous say little and do much, and
Welcome to The Neighborhood
In honor of the 65th World Kindness Day on November 13, I would like to offer my Torah Thought’s
Freeing Ourselves
In this week’s portion, we have the incident of Akeidah, the binding of Yitzchok. This story holds a place of
Review of JRT “Oh my God!”
“Oh my God” introduces us to Ella, a middle-aged psychologist and single mother of an autistic child, who receives a
Hynda Burdman
BURDMAN – Hynda November 4th 2019, daughter of the late Morris and Frances Burdman; sister of Phillip (Jacqueline) Burdman;and