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Beshalach: The Tambourines and Jewish Women’s Unshakable Faith
Parshat Beshalach opens with the Egyptian pursuit of the Jews into the desert, and the splitting of the Red Sea…
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Bo: The Diminishment of the Moon and Feminine Virtues
One of the key pieces of Parshat Bo is the commandment for the Mitzvah of Rosh Chodesh…
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Emor: The Strength in Soft Speech
This week’s parsha is called Emor, from the early words of the portion ‘Emor el hakohanim,’ ‘Say to the priests.’ The parsha begins with an instruction to the priests of the nation. There is something very special about ‘amira,’ about ‘saying,’ that may have skipped our notice. If we think about it, how many times…
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Acharei-Mot: Counting Our Spiritual Growth
We are now in the time of Sefirat HaOmer, the 49-day count which takes us, step-by-step, from the physical liberty of Egypt to the spiritual freedom of Sinai. Rav Kurland brings down from the ‘Neot Hadesheh’ a great question. Ordinarily, we have a concept in Jewish law that we fulfil mitzvot through a condition called…
