Torah portion: Must enlightenment hurt?
Jewish Journal
July 23, 2014
Parashat Masei (Numbers 33:1-36:13)\n
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Justice and freedom: Parashat Shemot (Exodus 1:1-6:1)
Rav Yosef Kanefsky
December 18, 2013
Upon arriving in Egypt, fresh from his encounter with God at the burning bush, Moshe enlists his brother Aharon as well as the elders of Israel to confront Pharaoh.
In the family way: Parashat Noach (Genesis 6:9-11:32)
Rabbi Lisa Edwards
October 3, 2013
Word went out from the congregation that a longtime member was nearing the end of her life. She has no partner and no children, but, on the day after Yom Kippur, 17 friends from the congregation came to visit her, including current and former clergy, and grown children she used to baby-sit.
Returning with God: Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelech (Deuteronomy 29:9-31:30)
Jewish Journal
August 28, 2013
Outside of Baltimore, smooth country roads swept like rivers between banks of undulating forest. As my wife and I coasted past rolling hills of green, we had the impression of driving over waves. Red barns and silver silos stood watch atop billowing crests while small ponds and brooks swashed cheerily in the troughs below.
Our rightful place: Parashat Ki Teitze (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19)
Rabbi Yonah Bookstein
August 14, 2013
“If you should see your friend’s ox or sheep straying, don’t ignore them. Instead return them to your friend. But if your friend is not close by, or you don’t know the owner, bring it to your home and hold onto it until the owner finds you, and then return it to them” (Deuteronomy 22:1-2).
Circumcise your heart: Parashat Ekev (Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25)
Rabbi Lisa Edwards
July 24, 2013
A friend who works for the federal government wrote recently to say that because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act), she was able to add her wife to the family’s insurance plan. “I never thought I would get emotional while on the phone with an insurance company, but I did.”
‘Because I say so’: Parashat Chukat (Numbers 19:1-22:1)
Jewish Journal
June 13, 2013
“This is the decree [chukat] of the Torah” (Numbers 19:2). Isn’t it amazing how, as we get older, our parents seem to become wise?
Who is like you?: Parashat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim (Leviticus 16:1-20:27)
Jewish Journal
April 19, 2013
Nathan was a young man in his 20s, living in Gulfport, Miss. He lived with his mother and grandmother in a small three-bedroom home a little over a mile from the Gulf Coast.
Hardship and rebirth: Parashat Beshalach (Exodus 13:17-17:16)
Jewish Journal
January 23, 2013
In these dark, cold days of winter, it’s so easy to lose hope. Add to this the hardships of loss, with which life seems intent on liberally sprinkling our lives, and we get something akin to paralysis. We may feel like a tree in winter, shorn of its leaves, standing still like death. Will spring ever come, and will we survive until it does?
Measure for measure: Parashat Miketz (Genesis 41:1-44:17)
Jewish Journal
December 12, 2012
There are a good many details about the Joseph narratives that elude ready explanation. We absorb them readily and ignore them just as readily.
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