Parsha Vayetze
This week’s parsha is Vayetze: Genesis 28:10-32:3 D’var Torah: Opening the Well of Interpretation Torah Pearls: Parsha Vayetze This week’s Haftarah is: Hosea 12:13-14:10
Parsha Toldot
This week’s parsha is Toldot: Genesis 25:19-28:9 D’var Torah: Blessing: Not a Zero-Sum Game Torah Pearls: Parsha Toldot This week’s Haftarah is: Malachi 1:1-2:7
iBelieve: God
Long post… God has many titles and identifiers but no matter what we call God He is One and Indivisible. God has no human form and the use of terms such as “the hand of God” is a metaphor since…
Parsha Chayei Sarah
This week’s parsha is Chayei Sarah: Genesis 23:1-25:18 D’var Torah: Deliberate Destiny Torah Pearls: Parsha Chayei Sarah This week’s Haftarah is: I Kings 1:1-31
Parsha Vayera
This week’s parsha is Vayera: Genesis 18:1-22:24 D’var Torah: Reading Between the Lines Torah Pearls: Parsha Vayera This week’s Haftarah is: II Kings 4:1 – 4:37
Parsha Lekh Lekha
This week’s parsha is Lekh Lekha: Genesis 12:1-17:27 D’var Torah: Choosing to be Chosen Torah Pearls: Parsha Lekh Lekha This week’s Hatarah is: Isaiah 40:27 – 41:16
Abraham’s Journeys: Lot Departs (Part II)
Archibald Sayce translated an Akkadian poem the “describes a rain of fire similar in character and effect to that which destroyed the cities of the plain.” He goes on to say that since Chedorlaomer and his allies were the ones…
Parsha Noach
This week’s parsha is Noach: Genesis 6:9-11:32 D’var Torah: Babel On . . . Torah Pearls: Parsha Noach This week’s Hatarah is: Isaiah 54:1 – 55:5
Parsha Bereishit
This week’s parsha is Bereishit: Genesis 1:1-6:8 D’var Torah: Words Not Spoken . . . Words Not Heard Torah Pearls: Parsha Bereishit This week’s Hatarah is: Isaiah 42:5-43:10
Abraham’s Journeys: Lot Departs (Part I)
Bereishit יג (Genesis 13) 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the LORD, like the…