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בס”ד Parashat Kedoshim This week’s Torah portion will certainly challenge you. If someone were to ask you if you want to behave in a holy manner you would surely answer yes. But just what is … Read More

בס”ד The Seventh Day of Unleavened Bread This Shabbat is the final day of the feast of Unleavened Bread and we are commanded in the Torah to treat this day as a holy meeting (see … Read More

Parashat Acharei Mot In this week’s Torah portion we learn of an important commandment. This commandment is that neither the children of Israel nor the gentile who lives among them should consume blood. Most of … Read More

Parashat Metzora & Shabbat HaGadol This week’s Torah portion is called Metzora and deals with leprosy.  Leprosy is a unique disease in the Bible. Although this disease can be a physical ailment caused by a … Read More

Shabbat Parah This week we read the third of four special Sabbath readings prior to Passover. This week is Shabbat Parah. The word “parah” is cow, and the portion is found in Numbers chapter 19 … Read More

Shabbat Zachor This Shabbat is the Shabbat before Purim and therefore we read a special Maftir. This reading is found in Deuteronomy 25:17-19 and focuses on Amalek the enemy of the Jewish people. Amalek is … Read More

בס”ד Shabbat Sh’kalim The next few weeks are special in regard to what is read in the synagogue. Although the normal weekly Torah portions continue to be read, the Maftir is altered to reflect the … Read More

בס”ד Parashat Vayakhel In this week’s Torah portion special attention is given to the various vessels that were in the Tabernacle and later in the Temple. There is one which I would like to emphasize … Read More

בס”ד Parashat Ki Tisa The Bible teaches that G-d is the same yesterday, today, and forever. The fact that He does not change is an important truth. In this week’s Torah portion HaShem states the … Read More

בס”ד Parashat Tetzaveh This week’s Torah portion deals almost exclusively with the levitical priests and their vestments. In this brief study we will deal with only one of the vestments called the head-plate.  This head-plate … Read More