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The Best Guarantors

“Draw me after you / we will run” (Song of Songs 1:4). At Sinai, when the Jews were ready to receive the Torah, God said to them, “What? Am I supposed to give you the Torah without any security? Bring some good guarantors that you will keep it properly, and I will give it to … Continue Reading

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Pathways From Parshat Bechukotai

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Pathways From Parshat Behar

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A Humble Week

Let’s start with a Chassidic story. The holy Baal Shem Tov was once a guest at someone’s home. He got up to go from a large room to a smaller room, but took a wrong turn and ended up in the cellar. “Check the mezuzahs,” he said. Someone there asked him, “Just because a person … Continue Reading

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Pathways From Parshat Emor

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Pathways From Parshat Acharei Mot – Kedoshim

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Can You Handle The Downs?

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Let’s review what we wrote last week about the Omer-offering. Yes, it’s that important. The offering consisted of barley, an archetypical animal food. On the second day of Pesach, an omer (a measure equal to approximately 2 quarts/1.9 liter) of barley was waved in the six directions of space (up, down and to the four … Continue Reading

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Do the Wave

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For approximately the next three months, there will be an inside/outside discrepancy in the Parashat HaShavua (weekly Torah reading), because here in Eretz Yisrael Pesach ended on Friday, whereas “outside the Land” it ended on Shabbat. So during this period, the topics of our Dvar Torahs will be summery rather than weekly. We are still … Continue Reading

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Pathways From Parshat Tazria-Metzora

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Pathways From Parshat Tzav

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