There are different things we are all missing at the moment, both with regards to our Jewish practice and observance, and in so many other ways. While I have become used to reading the parashat hashavoua, our Torah portion of the week at ...
Posted on 4 February 2021, By Rabbi Amanda Golby
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT – DON’T GET MAD, GET EVEN! The usual explanation for the connection between this week’s parashah and the haftarah is that two notable figures in our tradition are about to die. You might think that, on their ...
Posted on 21 December 2020, By Nahum Gordon
This parasha must be one of the most food and drink-oriented of all the parashiyot, if not the most. Of course there is the overarching theme of the seven years of plenty followed by the seven years of famine. But over and ...
Posted on 17 December 2020, By Daniel Oppenheimer