Rabbi Jack Paskoff is our guest this week. He moved to Lancaster, PA in July of 1993, and have been there ever since, serving as the rabbi of Congregation Shaarai Shomayim.
This week’s Torah Portion- Parashat Tetzaveh (Exodus 27:20-30:10) – continues giving us the instructions concerning the tabernacle, focusing on the role of the priesthood. Our discussion examines the meaning of ritual and pomp then and now.
Previous Torah Talks on Tetzaveh
“Her prose disrupted my mind,” I wrote, “confronting me with words I had never seen come together before.”
The philosopher Maimonides explains that if someone asks you for forgiveness, you should be open to their heartfelt apology. But this isn’t always realistic.
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We may be able to tolerate an irrational mob that goes after anything associated with Israel, but academics whose lives revolve around the search for truth and knowledge?
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The Haredi Public Party was created because the Haredi public deserves more than excuses, Israeli society deserves more than permanent confrontation, and the Jewish people deserve an Israel capable of reconciling Torah, responsibility and national unity.
For more than 30 minutes, approximately 160 delegates took turns denouncing me by name for being a Zionist, and calling Zionism racism.
Topp is departing Beth Jacob, where he has served as senior rabbi since 2009. He and his wife, Rebbetzin Jordana, are making aliyah.
He didn’t ask the audience to overlook his disability; he showed us how it could become a source of power, beauty and artistic innovation.
Rabbi Pini Dunner sees himself as sounding an alarm about what he describes as Qatar’s growing influence and ties to Hamas.
These countries plotted – or at least one of them plotted – to advance peace agreements with Israel simply to lull it to sleep ahead of a war at a more convenient time. Or so the “sources” say.
