Tag: dvar Torah
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Jewish Life
Dvar Torah Ki Seitzei: Hanging Out with God
This week's parsha opens with perhaps the most famous trifecta of storylines -- the captive woman, the two wives and the wayward son (Deuteronomy…
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Jewish Life
Dvar Torah Pinchas: Fasting for the Korban Tamid
Guest Post by Rabbi Evan Hoffman During the Babylonian captivity (586-515 BCE), Jewish exiles commemorated the destruction of the Holy Temple and the First…
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Jewish Life
Dvar Torah Chukas: Unrevealed Revelation
Someone approached me to tell me how nice of a piece I had written about this week's parsha, and I responded that I hadn't…
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Jewish Life
Dvar Torah Beha’aloscha: reVisions
The Menorah plays a central role in the opening verses of this week's parsha and the Akivan/Ishmaelian divide plays a central role in understanding…
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Jewish Life
Dvar Torah Emor: Moses and the Blasphemer
The Akivan view purports that the entire Torah was given to Moses on Sinai -- general principles along with all of the particulars --…
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Jewish Life
Dvar Torah Tazria-Metzora: Inclusion Criteria
The notion of there being ten commandments -- that is, the Ten Commandments -- permeates Judeo-Christian religious philosophy, despite the fact that the Old…
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Jewish Life
Dvar Torah Vayechi: Jacob Immortal
The start of a new year is a time for resolutions not because there's anything intrinsic about January 1st that begets rejuvenation, but because…
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Sukkos & Simchas Torah
Succos 2011
"Achas sha'alti me'es Hashem osa avakesh shivti b'veis Hashem kol y'mei chayai lachazos b'noam Hashem u'levaker b'hechalo," "One thing I asked of God --…
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Jewish Life
Don’t think, Don’t feel, Don’t ask
Gone are the days where the Chassidic tales were understood though the lens of Martin Buber's classic folktales. Most people understood these fables were Buber's romanticisms of…
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Jewish Life
Dvar Torah Bamidbar: Idealism vs. Realism
A few weeks ago, I discussed the Torah's exclusion of those with particular physical deformities from Temple service, proposing the notion that the divine…
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Israel
Shelach Dvar Torah: All A Matter of Perspective
A Guest Post By E. Fink The next in a weekly dvar Torah series by Rabbi Eliyahu Fink, Rabbi at Pacific Jewish Center in…
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Jewish Life
Beha’aloscha Dvar Torah: Three Is A Magic Number
A Guest Post By E. Fink The next in a weekly dvar Torah series by Rabbi Eliyahu Fink, Rabbi at Pacific Jewish Center in…
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Jewish Life
Bamidbar Dvar Torah: A Book Called Numbers
A Guest Post By E. Fink The first in a weekly dvar Torah series by Rabbi Eliyahu Fink, Rabbi at Pacific Jewish Center in…