Wrestling Over Sacred Issues
Dec 9, 2006 By Matthew Berkowitz | Commentary | Vayishlah
Appropriately enough, this week’s Torah reading is Parashat Vayishlah.
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Doing the Impossible
Dec 2, 2006 By David Hoffman | Commentary | Vayetzei
This parashah challenges us to do the impossible. Let me explain.
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The Challenges and Joys of Parenting
Nov 25, 2006 By Steven Brown | Commentary | Toledot
Parshat Toledot is the epitome of the challenges, struggles, ambivalences, and joys of parenting.
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Dawkins and a Deeper Level of Faith
Nov 18, 2006 By Marc Wolf | Commentary | Hayyei Sarah
In his introduction, Richard Dawkins articulates his goal in writing The God Delusion: “If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down” (5).
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Examining the Word Moriah
Nov 11, 2006 By Robert Harris | Commentary | Vayera
Years ago, in a national television program called Laugh In (yes, I lived during the Stone Age 鈥� the Rolling Stone Age. Never mind.), a comedian lampooned the song “They Called the Wind Moriah” from the Broadway show Paint Your Wagon.
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Appreciating Our Blessings
Nov 3, 2006 By David Hoffman | Commentary | Lekh Lekha
Imagine the following request: leave your home, your family, everything that you know and cherish and go 鈥� completely walk away from the world of your ancestors.
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Redemption: Israel’s Partnership with God
Mar 31, 2007 By Eliezer B. Diamond z”l | Commentary | Shabbat Hagadol
The first teaching attributed to Hillel in Tractate Avot is the following: “Be one of Aaron’s disciples, one who loves peace and pursues it, one who loves one’s fellow human beings and brings them near to the Torah.”
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A Personal Relationship to Torah
Feb 3, 2007 By Marc Wolf | Commentary | Beshallah
In his parashah commentary several weeks ago on the beginning of the book of Exodus, our Chancellor-elect Arnold Eisen shared what I consider one of my favorite texts.
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