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What makes people sin? How do they avoid it? Does God punish sinners in this world? Does God reward the righteous in this world?
This week’s Torah portion ( B’reishit ) – …
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10/28/16
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June 1967
Dear Mom and Dad,
Camp is FABULOUS! Actually, my amazing journey started before I even got here.
The plane from San Antonio made a stop in New Orleans and blew a tire while …
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2/3/23
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A cartoon that once appeared in the New Yorker pictures a man saying to his therapist, “But I love the past, I grew up there!” How true that is.
Let’s face it, as Rhode …
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9/1/23
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Most people, it seems, are quite familiar with one the Torah’s basic explanations for the obligation to eat matzah, unleavened bread made from one of five species of grain (wheat, barley, …
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4/15/16
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One of the things I love about the Torah is the humanity of the people portrayed in it. We see believable emotions, ones that we recognize in ourselves, despite the age of the narrative. For these last few parashiyot (Torah portions) …
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11/27/15
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The days are getting colder, the nights are getting longer. We are approaching the winter solstice. We have begun to forget the feeling of the sun on our skin. Some of us can hardly believe the long …
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11/22/18
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Years ago, I was at a party at the home of some friends. Several of us were sitting on a couch as their five-year-old child was playing noisily with some toys by our feet. The person next to me told …
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6/30/22
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I was speaking with a friend the other day, and I asked him, rhetorically, “Will this winter ever end?” I’m not bothered by the cold (after all, before I moved to Rhode …
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3/4/21
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Have you ever pretended that you were one of the Israelites during the 40-year Exodus? Not a pleasant thought, perhaps. After all, if you were an adult at the beginning of the journey, it meant that …
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8/7/20
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Two years ago, a couple hours before Passover started, I cried for the first time about the pandemic.
My husband and I had planned to have our families come in from out of state, to share food and …
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d'Var Torah
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4/1/22
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