Parshat Reeh 5783 2023

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 5783 2023

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 5783 2023

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 5783 2023

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)...

Parshat Matot-Masei 5783 2023

PARSHAT MATOT – MASEI ETHICS AND THE TORAH “Now, therefore, slay every male among the noncombatants, and slay also every woman who has known a man carnally.”  (Numbers 31:17)             We love to see the...

Parshat Pinchas 5783 2023

PARSHAT PINCHAS THE PINCHAS SCROLL “Command the Israelite people and say to them: Be punctilious in presenting to Me at stated times the offerings of food due Me, as offerings by fire of pleasing odor to Me.”  (Numbers 28:2)...