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SUKKOT RETURN TO NATURE “You shall live in booths seven days; all citizens in Israel shall live in booths.” (Leviticus 23:42) Let me share the message I wrote on Sukkot ten years ago.             Yom Kippur is...

PARSHAT HAAZINU METAPHORS “The Rock!—whose deeds are perfect, Yea, all God’s ways are just.”  (Deuteronomy 32:4)             If I am going to write about metaphors, perhaps it is best to begin with William...

PARSHAT NITZAVIM – VAYELECH WHERE IS THE TORAH? “It is not in the heavens, that you should say, ‘Who among us can go up to the heavens and get it for us and impart it to us, that we may observe it?’”  (Deuteronomy 30:12)...

PARSHAT KEE TAVO DEPRESSION “In the morning you shall say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you shall say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of what your heart shall dread and your eyes shall see.”  (Deuteronomy 28:67)...

PARSHAT KEE TETZE LEVIRATE MARRIAGE “When brothers dwell together and one of them dies and leaves no offspring, the wife of the deceased shall not become that of another party, outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall unite with her: he shall take her as his...

PARSHAT SHOFTIM MT. RUSHMORE “Justice, justice shall you pursue, that you may thrive and occupy the land that your Lord God is giving you.”  (Deuteronomy 16:20)             Greetings from South Dakota. ...

PARSHAT REEH BARBIE “See, this day I set before you blessing and curse.”  (Deuteronomy 11:16)             I admit it.  In response to the ongoing popular culture phenomenon, I went to see Barbie this...

PARSHAT EKEV BAR MITZVAH ANNIVERSARY “[God] will favor you and bless you and multiply you—blessing your issue from the womb and your produce from the soil, your new grain and wine and oil, the calving of your herd and the lambing of your flock, in the land sworn to...

PARSHAT VEETCHANAN IS GOD BROKEN? “Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.”  (Deuteronomy 6:4)             Here is a short selection from my forthcoming book, tentatively entitled Does the Universe...

PARSHAT DEVARIM HISTORY VERSUS MEMORY “Then all of you came to me and said, “Let us send agents ahead to reconnoiter the land for us and bring back word on the route we shall follow and the cities we shall come to.”  (Deuteronomy 1:27)...