Download a printer friendly version here. Tzav 5776: Quality, Not Quantity When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood

Matot – Mas’e 5775: Town and Country  “You take delight not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.” —

Behar-Behukotai 5775: Law of the Land “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” — Henry David Thoreau Before a Torah was ever mentioned, G-d established a

Emor 5775: The Seasons of Our Lives “Time is on my side, yes it is.”  — Mick Jagger Among the many commandments relating to kohanim and offerings in this parasha,

  Ahare Mot-Kedoshim 5775: In the Driver’s Seat  “…you will find—invisible, unrecorded, and unrecordable—both beauty and love. And where do they come from? From the same place as the soul,

Tazria-Metsora/Yom HaAtsmaut 5775: Surface Tension “Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of

Shemini 5775: Out of Bounds It is said that love should know no bounds. We are taught that it should be all embracing, indiscriminate and unconditional. These points may indeed

Tsav – Shabbat HaGadol 5775: Bridges to Life Tragedy lies behind the surface of this week’s parasha. As Aharon and his sons are inducted into the priesthood, the parasha culminates

Vayikra 5775: Inside Out The book of Vayikra, that we begin this week, is not at the top of the ‘easy-reading list’. Most of its content deals with rituals that

Behukotai is not an easy parasha to read. There is the obvious reason — its graphic presentation of harrowing events that a disobedient Jewish people might suffer — but even