by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 9, 2021 | Ezekiel, Messiah, Redemption, Revelation and Prophecy, Temple, Vayigash
The Torah portion of Vayigash (Genesis 44:18-47:27) completes the story of Joseph’s slavery in Egypt. The story culminates in a dramatic meeting between Judah and Joseph, ending in revelation and reconciliation. Jacob’s household comprised of 70 people descends into...
by Rabbi Tuly Weisz | f 5, 2021 | Mourning, Toldot
Esau returned home from the field to find Jacob cooking lentil stew. Famished from a tiring day of hunting, Esau demanded that Jacob give him some lentil stew to eat, Jacob agreed on the condition that Esau would sell him his birthright. Feeling that he had no use for...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 15, 2017 | Chosen Nation, Ezekiel, Ki Tisa, Redemption
This Dvar Torah is in honor of the upcoming marriage of Shira Stavsky and Shimmy Karasick – Mazal Tov! This Dvar Torah is in honor of the Bar Mitzvah of Avika Weichholz, son of Devori and Dani Weichholz of Ramat Shilo – Mazal Tov! In 1935, hundreds of...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 15, 2017 | Chosen Nation, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Israel, Yitro
A new book is published nearly every hour in the Jewish State, according to data from the National Library of Israel. 8,537 new works were published in 2015 including 7,843 print books and hundreds of audiobooks and eBooks. For such a small country, and when compared...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 28, 2016 | Covenant, Justice, Revelation and Prophecy, Vayigash
The first Israeli to win a Nobel Prize offered a sweeping account of the wanderings of the Jewish people throughout exile in his banquet speech. Dressed in tails and a black tie with a giant black kippah on his head in 1966 in Stockholm, writer Shai Agnon began his...
