I remember my mother speaking to one of her Christian Clergy friends, who was very interested in her becoming a rabbi. The Minister asked her: “When did you hear the calling?” It was a question that my mother didn’t have an answer t...
This Shabbat is the last of the four special Shabbatot which started with Shabbat Shekalim. On each of these Shabbatot, our Maftir comes from a second Sefer Torah, and there is a spec...
This week we come to the end of the second book of Torah, the book of Shemot, with the double sedra of Vayakhel and Pekudei. We are immediately told that Moses assembled (vayakhel) the pe...
