At our mincha discussion this week, we spent time talking about a piece of Torah text that deals with the reality vs. the ideal and it's...

Our Torah continues this week with some important guidelines, rules, and information about how to run a civil society. We're into the...

With just about a month to go until the High Holiday season begins, I wanted to provide the 3rd annual collection of starter stories for...

The very first word of our parsha caught my attention this week. רְאֵ֗ה אָנֹכִ֛י נֹתֵ֥ן לִפְנֵיכֶ֖ם הַיּ֑וֹם בְּרָכָ֖ה וּקְלָלָֽה׃ See,...

אֵ֣לֶּה הַדְּבָרִ֗ים "These are the words..." And so begins the final book of the Torah and Moshe's long goodbye speech to the...

This week we have the double parsha of Mattot-Masei. They get paired because they are both pretty short, but they have a lot of...

Much of the early part of this parsha deals with the listing of the lineage and clans who will enter the Promised Land. After going...

As the Israelites journey in the desert, they have a number of victories over the nations/tribes that they come across so it's not...

In our parsha this week, the story of the Israelites returns to the Wilderness of Zin. Perhaps the Wilderness of Zin sounds familiar....

It's hard to think of Parshat Korach and not think of the dramatic, made-for-movies events of the earth opening up and swallowing the...

It's a disappointing week for Am Yisrael in this week's parsha. They choose to follow the guidance of the 10 spies who report that,...

A number of years ago I taught a class that explored the idea of Truth. The first thing we did was a kind of game asking a series of...

Our parsha continues with the description and listing and categorization of the Jewish people in the desert. Within the Levites some of...

There's two interesting overlaps of calendar timing this year - one is designed by the rabbis and the other is a happenstance of the...

I was working on this week's #parshainspiredmenus on the bus on the way to the Celebrate Israel parade and got some great ideas from my...

Have you heard this trend of Marry Me Recipes? It's a recipe sensation on TikTok and other social media platforms. I did a little...

The Torah goes through the list of Jewish holidays (Shabbat, Pesach, Shavuot, etc.) in two chapters ( Leviticus 23 and Deuteronomy 16),...

We had a very interesting disucssion at Shabbat mincha last week about the public nature of having to proclaim to others that you have...

It feels like we've been prepping for Shemini for weeks! Well, we kind of have since it's the weekly Torah portion we've been reading...

With Pesach starting as Shabbat departs, this Friday night is a bit complicated to cook for...you're not supposed to have anything that...