Daily Kavanah – Monday, October 4, 2021
This week, we read from parashat Noach, detailing the famed story of Noah’s ark. However, in order to understand this story in depth, [...]
This week, we read from parashat Noach, detailing the famed story of Noah’s ark. However, in order to understand this story in depth, [...]
This Shabbat we begin the reading of our Torah again with Parashat B’reisheet, the very first portion of the five books. It includes two stories [...]
Exploring Genesis: This week’s Torah Reading Cain said to his brother Abel… and when they were in the field, Cain set upon his [...]
Exploring Genesis: This week’s Torah reading And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because on it God ceased from all [...]
Exploring Genesis: This week’s Torah reading And God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. They shall rule the fish [...]
Exploring Genesis: This week’s Torah reading This week the Torah scroll is rolled back to the beginning, the opening chapter of the book [...]
Sukkot is known as z’man simchateinu—the season of our joy. We rejoice spiritually and perhaps even existentially because we have made it to the [...]
I have long loved the Catholic method of dividing time; there are seasons: the Lenten season, the Advent season, and there is ordinary [...]
Of Sukkot, the Torah teaches: “I made the Israelite people live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt.” [...]
Sukkot is, more than any other holiday, a holiday of vulnerability. We are required to be open—open to the elements of wind and [...]