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Weekly Torah
Avraham avinu (our father Abraham), sought G-d and loved G-d. G-d called to Avraham to leave all behind and journey to a land G-d would bequeath to Avraham’s as yet unborn children. Avraham’s understanding that the world has a Master and that He rules His world with love and with justice informs Avraham’s children to this day.
Lech Lecha (Genesis 12:1-17:27)
Parashat Lech Lecha is read on Shabbat:
Marcheshvan 8, 5775/November 1, 2014
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Before the beginning, before the heavens and the earth, before darkness and light, night and day, the stars and illuminations, the creatures of the sea, the crawling things, the birds or the beasts… even before the first Shabbat – G-d laid out the primordial foundations for His relationship with man. It is upon these unshakable foundations that all creation is built.
Noach (Genesis 6:9-11:32)
Parashat Noach is read on Shabbat:
Marcheshvan 1, 5774/Octoberber 25, 2014
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Our yearly rendezvous with G-d, which began in the month of Av, built up steam throughout the month of Elul, left us reeling and breathless from Rosh HaShana and literally out of this world on Yom Kippur, now places us in the only place possible for us to be in our heightened state of close proximity to G-d: in our Sukkot booths. These temporary dwellings are like our own personal Holy of Holies – beyond time and space – a heavenly embrace – seven perfect days.
Chag Sameach – חג שמח – Have a Joyful Sukkot!
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In this week’s parasha the children of Israel are about to enter into a covenant with Hashem, and we are today about to enter into the new year of 5775. The same challenge that stood before Israel as she stood poised to enter the land, stands before us today. We must stand strong in the face of the evil and death that encompasses us all around, and be poised and ready to take a stand and to act for good and life and blessing in the world. Building the Holy Temple, a source of light and blessing and a bulwark against the curse of darkness is this generation’s challenge and responsibility. We must stand together as one and build! Shana Tova!
Nitzavim-Vayelech (Deuteronomy 29:9-31:30)
Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelech is read on Shabbat:
Elul 25, 5774/September 20, 2014
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The good, the bad and the blessing. It’s all here in parashat Ki Tavo. From the sublime perfect moment of being alive in G-d’s Holy Temple, first-fruits in hand, heart overflowing with joy and gratitude, declaring our recognition of G-d’s hand in every thing we do and every soul we touch, to the nightmare wasteland of the admonitions. Joy, community, thankfulness? Helplessness, despair, isolation? The choice is ours.
Ki Tavo (Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8)
Parashat Ki Tavo is read on Shabbat:
Elul 18, 5774/September 13, 2014
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Just as G-d’s presence fills the world but G-d is not the world, so too, G-d’s mercy fills creation but but G-d can’t be defined by His attribute of mercy. Some commandments, such as shiluach haken – the chasing away of the mother bird before taking her eggs or chicks – are expressions of G-d’s mercy. Other commandments, such as the commandment to utterly destroy Amalek, come to show us that mercy alone cannot sustain the world, and that the revelation of G-d’s mercy alone cannot define our commitment to perform His commandments.
Ki Teitzei (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19)
Parashat Ki Teitzei is read on Shabbat:
Elul 11, 5774/September 6, 2014
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The great concern Torah evinces for an unsolved murder, as in the case of the ‘axed calf’ is a harsh contrast to the laws of warfare which precede it and call upon all Israelite warriors to be fearless and merciless when fighting a divinely mandated war. Yet there is no contradiction between these seemingly disparate commandments. On the contrary, it is because Torah holds up and sanctifies the life of every individual that we must be unsparing when fighting enemies who seek our destruction.
Shoftim (Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9)
Parashat Shoftim is read on Shabbat:
Elul 4, 5774/August 30, 2014
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