Lech Lecha - weekly Torah portion
It is quite fair to say that almost everyone know the famous words “lech lecha” when Abram is told, “Go forth from your country, And from...


Noah - weekly Torah portion
"Noah walked with God”, we are told, and “Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.” Overall he was a good...


Haazinu- weekly Torah portion
We have almost completed the yearlong cycle, reading the one before last weekly portions of the Torah. Moses calls, “Give ear, O heavens,...


Vayelech- weekly Torah portion
Aesop fable of the fox and the crow is well known. It was later adapted by the Frenchman La Fontaine as well as the Russian Krylov, who...


Nitzavim- weekly Torah portion
In the choice between tragedy and destiny as opposed to control and opportunity Judaism provides us with a clear answer. This week’s...


Ki Tavo- weekly Torah portion
This week’s portion of the Torah begins with, “Then it shall be, when you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you as an...


Ki Teitzei- weekly Torah portion
It is difficult to forget the call “Remember what Amalek did to you along the way when you came out from Egypt, how he met you along the...


Shoftim- weekly Torah portion
There is nothing new about it – I almost always start writing my Dvar at some time around midnight between Thursday and Friday of almost...


Re'eh- weekly Torah portion
“See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I...


Ekev- weekly Torah portion
The Promised Land is described in this week’s portion of the Torah as a land that has the best of everything, “a land of wheat and...

