All posts in Parsha
IN THE DESERT
This week we start the fourth of the five books of the Torah, Bamidbar (the first portion in each
TORAH THOUGHTS ON BEHAR-BEHUKOTAI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2M13_DaD84 Ah, the great outdoors. This is the time when our weather starts to shift from snowy Buffalo, to the
TORAH THOUGHTS ON PARSHAT EMOR
https://youtu.be/hPgbVFtRcuM This week’s Torah portion, Emor, begins with a dead body. No it is not a murder mystery. Rather it
CAN YOU SMELL THE TORAH?
https://youtu.be/4peLiZMXCDk Perhaps, at some point you have had a chance to hold a Torah, or to kiss a Torah, or,
TORAH THOUGHTS ON PARSHAT TAZRIA METZORA
https://youtu.be/KaHK8Ai4544 There is no harsher word in Biblical Hebrew then Karet. It means alternatively – cut off, excommunicated, and executed.
LEVITICUS SHOULD COME WITH A WARNING
It gets me every time. After all the sacrifices – one after another, week after week – lies three verses
THE GREAT PASSOVER DEBATE
https://youtu.be/lSDYWh6uBuc What do peanuts, popcorn, and rice have in common? They are all part of the great Passover machlochet or
TORAH THOUGHTS PARSHAT TZAV
https://youtu.be/SfAQaYjolh8 The Hebrew word Mitzvah is typically translated as either “good deed” or “commandment.” I would like to suggest an
TORAH THOUGHTS PARSHAT VAYIKRA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRWeca-9acA Occasionally, people from the Christian world will ask me if I have been “called” to be a rabbi. This
NAVIGATING THE DESERT AT NIGHT
The desert can be a dangerous place, especially at night. I should know because of a harrowing experience I had