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PARSHAT LECH LECHA PARIS IS BURNING “Now the inhabitants of Sodom were very wicked sinners against God.”  (Genesis 13:13)             Several years ago, my flight home from Israel was cancelled.  I was...

PARSHAT NOACH WHY I DON’T LIKE NOAH “Noah was a righteous man in his generation.”  (Genesis 6:9)             Noah is one of the great heroes of Genesis.  But I admit, I do not particularly care for...

PARSHAT BEREISHIT A SINGLE LETTER “The Lord God formed out of the earth all the wild beasts and all the birds of the sky, and brought them to the human to see what he would call them.”  (Genesis 2:19)...

END OF SUKKOT BEATING THE WILLOWS “On the first day you shall take the product of a goodly trees, branches of palm trees, boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days.”  (Leviticus 23:40)...

SUKKOTFROM THE SPIRITUAL TO THE MATERIAL WORLD “You shall dwell in booths seven days; all who are Israelites born shall dwell in booths.” (Leviticus 23:42)                One of my favorite stories...

PARSHAT NITZAVIM – VAYELECH THEREFORE, CHOOSE LIFE “I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore, choose life—if you and your offspring would live.”   (Deuteronomy 30:19)...

PARSHAT KEE TAVO ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE “These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.” (Deuteronomy 28:69)...

PARSHAT KEE TETZE THE MUSICAL SIX AND DIVORCE “A man takes a woman [into his household] and becomes her husband. She fails to please him because he finds something obnoxious about her, and he writes her a bill of divorcement, hands it to her, and sends her away from...

PARSHAT SHOFTIM WHAT IS JUSTICE? “Justice, justice shall you pursue.”  (Deuteronomy 16:20)             In my philosophy class at Miami Dade College, I dedicate an evening to the study of justice.  We all...

PARSHAT REEHTHE WALL “To the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, to his habitation shall you seek, and there you shall come.” (Deuteronomy 12:5)           Ages ago, when...