Download a printer friendly version here. Please click HERE to listen to this week’s audio recording read by Rabbi Joseph Dweck Haftara for Beha’alotekha 5777: Beyond Your Dreams   “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet  …

Download a printer friendly version here. Please click HERE to listen to this week’s audio recording read by Rabbi Joseph Dweck Haftara for Bemidbar 5777: The Desert of the Real   “One is unable to notice something when it is always before one’s eyes.”  — Ludwig Wittgenstein  Hoshea 2:1-22 Synopsis…

Download a printer friendly version here. Please click HERE to listen to this week’s audio recording read by Rabbi Joseph Dweck Haftara for Behar-Behukotai 5777: Zombie Universe ‘My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness’. — Michelangelo Jeremiah 16:19 – 17:14  Synopsis Yirmiyahu opens…

Download a printer friendly version here. Please click HERE to listen to this weeks audio recording read by Jenny Kraiem-Ghatan. Jenny moved from Brooklyn to London in 2012. She established her interior architecture + design studio, JKG Interiors working in both residential and commercial sectors. She lives with her husband and…

Download a printer friendly version here. AUDIO RECORDING: Please click HERE to listen to this weeks audio recording read by Norman Lebrecht. Norman is a British commentator on music and cultural affairs, a novelist, and the author of the classical music blog Slipped Disc. He is also a member of the S&P Sephardi Community….

Haftara for Tazria-Metsora 5777: Skin in the Game Download a printer friendly version here. ***Audio Recording*** Please click here to listen to this weeks audio recording read by Caroline Jackson Levy. Caroline is a Business leader, consultant in Organisational Behavioural Psychology and a member of The S&P Sephardi Community. ‘Cowards die…

Download a printer friendly version here. ***NEW: TO LISTEN TO AN AUDIO READING OF THE HAFTARA – CLICK HERE*** Dear Readers, I want to thank you for sharing these insights on the haftara with me each week. The haftara essays tend to be longer than my previous parasha essays…

Download a printer friendly version here. ‘My sun sets to rise again.’ — Robert Browning Ezekiel 37:1-14 Synopsis Yehezkel sees a prophetic vision of a valley filled with dry bones. God begins the dialogue with him asking ‘Son of humans, can these bones live again?’ Yehezkel responds ‘Only You…

Download a printer friendly version here. Haftara for Shabbat HaGadol (Tsav) 5777 – Tell Me a Story ‘There is always a plan, the plan is for the common good, and it always demands the submission of  very large numbers of others who, if they do not comply, become the enemy.  The surest…