Last week the Torah gave a detailed account of the structure of the Temple. This week, the Torah portion of Tetzaveh further discusses different elements relating to the Temple and its service. Primarily, the parshah describes the garments of the high priest (also including the garments of the ordin...

In this week’s parshah, we learn about the construction of the Tabernacle that the Jews were commanded to build in the desert. It is a well known concept in Jewish life that there exists a direct link between the Tabernacle and the day of Shabbos: Every single creative activity that was needed in ...

Near the end of this week’s parshah we come upon the well-known words of “Na’aseh Venishmah� (“We will do and we will hear�) that the Jewish nation expressed concerning their commitment to God and to following His commandments. The verse writes as follows: “…and they (the Jewish nati...

In this week’s Torah portion, we read about the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. Within the Torah’s description of that untimely event, the parshah lists the “Ten Commandments� that were passed down to us from God. Let us focus on one of those commandments; that of Shabbos (the Sabbath). ...

Normal 0 In last week’s Torah portion, we read about the first confrontation between Moshe and Pharaoh, where Moshe demands that Pharaoh free the Jews from the Egyptian bondage. This request upset Pharaoh greatly and caused him to intensify the workload on the Jewish people. As a result of this, M...

show_3a07f8b64dbc58(448, 386); Louis Armstrong-Let My People Go Vezi mai multe video din Muzica » This weeks parshah’s is one of my favorites and so appropriate for King’s birthday. “Let my people go,â€� is one of my favorite civil rights spirituals. It has its origins in this weeks pars...

Normal 0 This week marks the conclusion of the book of Genesis, the first of five books of the Torah. In brief, the parshah speaks of the final words that our forefather Jacob shares with his children and grand-children before his death, and it describes what occurs after his death, and the death of...

  The story of Joseph, which begins this week, covers the last four parashiyot of Bereshit, making it the longest simple narrative in the book. When I was a child, it was one of my favourite stories and I think that somehow it is still is. I suppose part of me could identify with this large family....

Fred Taub, the author of this article, lives in our town and emails everyone a weekly newsletter  with links to his work.  His basic argument here is that Islam is similar to Nazism because both groups have "a mental disorder," an inferiority complex that arises from their dislike of indiv...

 This past week we had the parsha from which the whole counting issur is derived. We are not allowed to count Jews directly because then an ayin hora will affect them and they will die of the plague. We must only count them by asking each one to give a half shekel and then counting those coins....