Bechukotai- weekly Torah portion
“If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out…” – so begins the portion of the Torah which we read this...


Bahar- weekly Torah portion
In the Torah reading of this week we find, “you shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God”. In the Talmud, Baba Metzia,...


Amor- weekly Torah portion
“The Lord spoke again to Moses, saying, “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘The Lord’s appointed times which you shall...


Kedoshim - weekly Torah portion
“You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or capacity. 36 You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah,...


Metsora - weekly Torah portion
We do not really know what the biblical leprosy, that we read about this week’s portion of the Torah, is all about. Some assume it is the...


Pekudey - weekly Torah portion
“This is the number of the things for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were numbered according to the command of...


Ki Tisa - weekly Torah portion
Moses goes up the mountain and does not return for many days. The people are restless, the leader is missing and gossip, I am sure,...


Truma - weekly Torah portion
Moses is commanded, “Tell the sons of Israel to raise a contribution for Me; from every man whose heart moves him you shall raise My...


Mishpatim - weekly Torah portion
The Ten Commandments, important as they may be, are not sufficient by themselves to provide for a desired social structure. Surely they...


Jethro - weekly Torah portion
Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, arrives at camp with his daughter Zipporah, Moses’ wife, and his two grandchildren, Moses’ sons. Moses...

