Last week during Simchat Torah we started Rabbi Larry Tabick’s weekly exploration of the Torah with a kabbalistic lens. Since this week also concerns Bereishit, we use a […]
Parshat Bereishit
Parshat Bereishit
Simchat Torah – Torah Study
In this cycle through the Torah we will be taking a mystical journey. Our guide will be Rabbi Larry Tabick’s book, The Aura of Torah, published in 2014 by the Jewish […]
Parshat Haazinu 5781
In the penultimate parshah of the Torah, Moses’ last words take the form of a song. It is one of the few sections of the Torah that are formally structured […]
Parshat Nitzavim-Vayeilech
Devarim 30:11-14
Surely, this Instruction which I enjoin upon you this day is not too baffling for you, nor is it beyond reach. It is not in the heavens, that […]
Parshat Ki Tavo
This parshah provides an opportunity to draw together a number of the themes we have discussed together this year. It begins with the mitzvah of the first fruits ceremony.
Devarim 26:2-3 […]
Parshat Ki Teitze
Ki Teitze contains more mitzvot (commandments or obligations) than any other parsha in the Torah. The combination and variety of the mitzvot in the parsha defy attempts to rationalize and […]
Parshat Shoftim
Moses is trying to communicate that there is something special and different about the revelation the Israelites received at Sinai. Something that goes beyond simply living in a land as […]
Parshat Re’eh
In memory of Rabbi Adin Steninsaltz, who passed away last weekend.
Devarim 12:1-2
“These are the statutes and the laws that you shall keep to do in the land that […]
Parshat Eikev
Moses seeks to provide wisdom and memory to a new generation that will be living a very different life than in the Wilderness.
Devarim 8:3 (Alter)
And He afflicted you […]
Parshat Vaetchanan
Devarim 3:23-
I pleaded with the LORD at that time, saying,
“O Lord God, You who let Your servant see the first works of Your greatness and Your mighty hand, […]