Parshat Yitro - Religious Coercsion: Not as Bad as We Might Think
Especially in Israel, religious coercion is automatically considered something negative,...
Parshat Bereishit - Frumkeit on the Back of My Brother
We often think of our own frumkeit in terms of the relationship we have with God, giving little...
Parashat Re'eh - Judaism and Income Inequality
How we view "our" money says a great deal about our world view...
Parshat Ekev - Shema Part II - For the Love of God
After a short diversion into an amazingly Zionistic Rashi found in the second chapter of Shema,...
Parshat Va'etchanan - Learning from Tragedy, Parenting Our Children
While Va'etchanan teaches us a great deal about the causes of and reasons for calamities that...
Parshat Devarim - From Faith to Reality
We examine the textual challenge of how the story of the Meraglim is described differently in...
Parshat Matot-Masei - Individual Wants vs Communal Needs
The requests of the tribes of Reuven and Gad to remain on the East Bank of the Jordan River...
Parshat Pinchas - Were Tzlafchad's Daughters Feminists?
Through a careful reading of both the text, commentaries and midrashim on the story of the...
Parshat Balak - The Hidden Message of Sexual Ethics
Balak is a strange parshah with even stranger details. But underneath the strange and unusual...
Parshat Chukat - Dealing with Tragedy in Jewish Life
This shiur begins with a discussion of the phenomenon of Israeli religious widows who marry but...
The Avodah represents the pinnacle of service on Yom Kippur. The Mishnah dedicates seven out of...
Ein Ayah on Ki Tavo - Finding the Spiritual in the Physical
From the Mitzvah of Mikra Bikkurim we move to a powerful piece from Rav Kook about the purpose...
Parshat Vaetchanan - Seeing the Positive in Judaism
All too often, we allow ourselves to focus on the negative, failing to see the amazing positives...
Parashat Devarim - Why Do We Need a Second Torah?
Why do we need a "Second" Torah? Isn't that concept a bit problematic? We also study the...
Parshat Balak - Truth and Falsehood
Is Balak a person who tells the truth? He seems to think that he is, and says so all the time.
Parshat Chukat - The Death of Aharon
Chazal convey the pain and beauty in the process of Aharon's death. Why was he punished? And what...
Parshat Behaalotecha - Moshe's Pain
When Miriam and Aharon speak negatively about Moshe, what was his reaction? Did he react at all?...
Shevii Shel Pesach and the Meaning of Yom Yerushalayim
Each year, I struggle to find meaning in Yom Yerushalayim. As we neared the 50th anniversary of...
The Case of Kelaim - Why do we Keep Commandments
A short comment in Rashi about the reason (or lack of one) for the mitzvah of Kelaim leads us to...
The Three Oaths - Why Some People Don't Celebrate Yom Ha'atzmaut - and Why They're Wrong
The three oaths appear in a very famous passage in Masechet Ketubot, and represent one of the...
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