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Enjoying Torah Talks? Please consider making a donation to the Kol Tikvah community! Click HERE. Re’eh 2024: Kashrut And All That It Ignores Deut. 11:26 – 16:17 This week’s Torah portion, Re’eh, goes into depth about animals that we can and cannot eat. It clearly lays out the laws of “must chew its cud” and “must […]
Enjoying Torah Talks? Please consider making a donation to the Kol Tikvah community! Click HERE. Eikev 2024: Life According the the Gospel of “When” Deut. 7:12-11:25 The Hebrew word “Ekev” translates to “when.” We often experience life through “whens”… when you pass your driving test, you get the keys to the family car; when you excel […]
Enjoying Torah Talks? Please consider making a donation to the Kol Tikvah community! Click HERE. Va-et’chanan 2024: FAIR AND GOOD Deut. 3:23 – 7:11 As Jews, we love laws. We are the people of the book, afterall, and that book, our Torah, gave us 613 commandments. But, that was not enough for us. The rabbis of […]
Enjoying Torah Talks? Please consider making a donation to the Kol Tikvah community! Click HERE. Devarim 2024: Taking Down Giants Deut. 1:1 – 3:22 The slave generation was scared of giants. Makes sense – who wouldn’t be worried about potential warfare with people that are more physically powerful? More than once in our Bible do we […]
Enjoying Torah Talks? Please consider making a donation to the Kol Tikvah community! Click HERE. Matot / Mas-ei 2024: Names to be Remembered Numbers 30:2-36:13 In this week’s Torah portion, Matot Masei, we conclude the book of Numbers. In its final chapter we return to a story about a group of women, the daughters of Zelophehad. […]
Enjoying Torah Talks? Please consider making a donation to the Kol Tikvah community! Click HERE. It was in the wilderness of Zin where Moses took an action that determined his fate. While mourning the death of his sister, he struck a rock instead of speaking to it thereby disobeying God’s command. While it still brought forth […]
A short reflection on Sh’lach (Numbers 13:1-15:41) In this week’s Torah portion, Sh’lach, there is a disturbing tale about a man who is caught gathering wood on the Sabbath — which is a big no-no according to the Torah. Back in Exodus, we were taught that anyone who breaks the Sabbath is to be put to death. […]
A short reflection on Acharei Mot (Leviticus 16:1- 18:30) Have you ever felt like a scapegoat – a person that is unfairly blamed for problems caused by others? Unless you live in a bubble, you are aware of the current protests erupting across this country supporting Hamas, a known terrorist group, in its war with Israel. Sadly, […]
Telling our story – that’s a key element to every Passover Seder. But, if we only read the text as given in our haggadot, we fall short of telling our story, because we are only sharing our past. While our past is key to understanding how we came to be, our story continues. So, if […]
A short reflection on Metzora (Leviticus 14:1 – 15:33) In today’s Torah portion, Metzora, we learn all about sick houses. Yes, sick houses. God says to Moses and Aaron, “When you enter the land of Canaan that I give you as a possession, and I inflict an eruptive plague upon a house in the land you possess, […]
