Parshat Vayishlach 5784 2023

PARSHAT VAYISHLACH JEWS PLAYING JEWS “Timna was a concubine of Esau’s son Eliphaz; she bore Amalek to Eliphaz.” (Genesis 36:12)             I want to take a break this week from the painful news of the war in...

Parshat Vayetze 5784 2023

PARSHAT VAYETZE GENOCIDE “Jacob also saw that Laban’s manner toward him was not as it had been in the past.”  (Genesis 31:2)             Jacob’s enemy through most of this portion is his uncle and...

Parshat Toldot 5784 2023

PARSHAT TOLDOT REASON VERSUS PASSION “When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the outdoors; but Jacob became a mild man, a man of the tent.”  (Genesis 25:27)             As a philosophy...

Parshat Hayei Sara 5784 2023

PARSHAT HAYEI SARAISAAC AND REBECCA “And Isaac brought her to his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebecca, and she became his wife, and he loved her, and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.” (Genesis 24:67)...

Parshat Vayera 5784 2023

PARSHAT VAYERA SODOM, NINEVEH, GAZA “Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?”  (Genesis 18:25)             We are known as the people Israel, a term that literally means “wrestles with God.” ...