Download a printer friendly version here. Please click HERE to listen to this week’s audio recording read by Rabbi Joseph Dweck. Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation’s final law Tho’ Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek’d against his creed — Alfred Lord Tennyson Isaiah…

Download a printer friendly version here. Please click HERE to listen to this week’s audio recording read by Rabbi Joseph Dweck. Haftara for Ekeb 5777 : Lifeline ‘All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. — Alexandre Dumas  Isaiah 49:14-51:3  Synopsis  For seven weeks after the…

Download a printer friendly version here. Please click here listen to this week’s audio recording read by Rabbi Joseph Dweck. Haftara for Va’ethanan-Nahamu 5777: Recovery “The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with…

Download a printer friendly version here. Please click HERE to listen to this week’s audio recording read by Rabbi Joseph Dweck. Haftara for Debarim-Hazon 5777: Do it Right “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference, The opposite of beauty is not ugliness, it’s indifference, The opposite of faith…

Download a printer friendly version here. Please click HERE to listen to this week’s audio recording read by Rabbi Joseph Dweck Haftara for Matot-Mas’ei 5777: Go With the Flow ‘Trust should be guarded to the end: without trust we cannot stand’. — Baroness Onora O’Neill Jeremiah 2:4-28, 4:1-2 (Sephardim) Synopsis…

Download a printer friendly version here. Please click HERE to listen to this week’s audio recording read by Rabbi Joseph Dweck ‘There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify – so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that…

The final census of the Torah occurs in Parashat Pinhas. It appears, though, in a peculiar way (Bamidbar 26:1). There is a paragraph break in the middle of the pasuk! The pasuk begins “After the plague concluded,” and then upon starting a new paragraph the verse concludes “And G-d…

Download a printer friendly version here. Please click HERE to listen to this week’s audio recording read by Rabbi Joseph Dweck When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren’t the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation. — Arsène Wenger (Manager,…

Download a printer friendly version here. Please click HERE to listen to this week’s audio recording read by Rabbi Joseph Dweck ‘The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected’.  — Robert Frost Judges 11:1-33  Synopsis  We find Israel immersed in a matter of oppression and controversy with the Amonite population…

Download a printer friendly version here. Please click HERE to listen to this week’s audio recording read by Rabbi Joseph Dweck. Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea…