Families are invited to discuss a set of questions at the Shabbos table this week to deepen engagement with Parshat Chayei Sarah. The activity is intended for this Shabbos while reading the parsha and ...

Parshat Vayeira begins with the aftermath of Avraham having undergone the Brit Milah at the age of 99; within this Parshah, his son, Yitzchak will be born when Avraham is 100-the commentaries note ...

There is much posttraumatic stress in Israel today, and thus it is good for my mental health to spend time in Los Angeles with my son in his warm and welcoming congregation. I actually enjoyed the ...

The dramatic and emotionally powerful haftara of Parshat Vayera tells the story of a barren Shunamite woman who performs the kindness of welcoming the prophet Elisha into her home. When Elisha asks ...

Parshat Tazria/Metzora: Leviticus 12:1-15:33; II Kings 7:3-20. The sedrahs for this week deal almost entirely with the care and treatment of leprosy. Later generations of rabbinic commentators ...

This week we are reading a double portion, but we still haven’t left the number ‘eight’. The parasha opens with a few verses talking about a brit Milah – a circumcision on the eighth day, but then ...

The Kohanim and Leviim did not have a share in the Land, it was therefore up to the other tribes to provide for them. In Parshat Shoftim we read about a few of these gifts that are given to the Kohen ...

If we accept Hashem’s Mitzvot and love Him with all of our heart and soul, there will be a consequence of rain, bounty, etc. Ohr Hachaim notices that the consequences commence with the word ונתתי, ...

“Losing a friend is one of the great, under-reported tragedies of adult life.’’ This poignant truth, shared between two members of a clergy search committee in Michelle Huneven’s 2022 novel “Search,” ...

The Torah explicates how the high priest undertakes the task of declaring someone a metzora (a person afflicted with a rare skin disease): “And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the ...

Welcome back to the Parsha Studio! In this week’s Parsha, Tazria, Miriam, who was the sister of Moshe Rabeinu, spoke negatively about her brother Moshe. As a punishment for her words, she was struck ...