by Rabbi Pesach Wolicki | f 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
“And Avraham breathed his last, dying at a good ripe age, old and contented; and he was gathered to his kin. His sons Yitzchak and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite, facing Mamre,” reads a passage of this...
by Rabbi Pesach Wolicki | f 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
Has God ever thrown you a curveball? Of course, He has. There’s an old Yiddish expression, “Man plans, and God laughs.” We wake up every morning with an idea of what the future looks like. We make plans, as we must, only to be blindsided by God. The surprises God...
by Rabbi Pesach Wolicki | f 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
This week’s Torah portion, Noach, tells the stories of two failed societies. In each of these two stories, we encounter a breakdown in values that leads to dissolution and destruction. First, the generation of the flood. The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth...
by Rabbi Pesach Wolicki | f 23, 2018 | Kindness and Compassion, Psalms, Vayechi
If we look at the final verse of Psalm 23 on its own, separated from its context, we see a beautiful statement of peace and satisfaction with one’s life. Only good and kindness, wow! No suffering at all. No encounters with evil. Truly a blessed life. How rare...
by Rabbi Pesach Wolicki | f 18, 2018 | Psalms
Since the Bible was originally written in Hebrew, many nuances and subtleties of the text’s meaning are lost in translation when we study it in English. One example of this can be found in Psalm 23. The standard translation of Psalm 23 verse 5 is: You prepare a...
