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This week’s portion of the Torah begins with the words, “You shall charge the sons of Israel, that they bring you clear oil of beaten...

Giving is integral to being Jewish. The period of time we are beginning now is a special time where we talk and deal with giving, making...

This is a special Shabbat in general and especially for me, because this Shabbat Shekalim is also the very Shabbat when I was called to...

Ten Commandments. The essence of the essence. The words of law, that echo for thousands of years of judicial development. Today I would...

It is fair to say that most of us already know the story of this week’s portion of the Torah pretty well. It does not really matter what...

When our first child was born, immediately I started trying to figure out who he looked like – if he looked like my husband or if he...

Moses argues in this week’s portion of the Torah, “Behold, I am unskilled in speech; how then will Pharaoh listen to me?” The...

Reading yet once again the portion of the Torah of this Shabbat, Shemot, from the book of Exodus, the ancient story became familiar to me...

When Jacob meets Pharaoh for the first time, as we have read in last week’s portion, Pharaoh asks Jacob “How many years have you lived?”...

The best laid out plans, even those that are life savers at one time, may have less the desirable results later in time. Joseph’s basic...