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Human Rights Tour For Jewish Leadership
Join our Human Rights Tour For Jewish Leadership October 2nd- 9th
Please join RHR for 7 days of touring, experiencing and Torah study that will challenge and inspire Explore Israel’s Burning and Sometimes Confusing Human Rights Challenges With Israel’s Rabbinic Voice of Conscience. Become better informed, more knowledge
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The Choice We Face: A Dvar Torah for parashat “Vaera”, 5773
Rabbi Idit Lev shows us the choice that faced the Egyptian leadership and people when confronted with the demands of Moses and Aaron. That fateful decision, coming from the top down, parallels our own impending elections in Israel. Read the Dvar Torah for parshat Vaera. Continue reading
The Promised Land, Moses and the Vision: Davar Torah – Parashat VaEthanan
Rabbi Mira Raz lingers on the moment where Moses asks God if he can see the good land. What is Moses’ view? And how does the same fateful moment before entry into the Land of Israel encompass so many mythical and social insights for the rest of the journey? Dvar Torah on Parshat VaEthanan Continue reading
The Difference between Healthy and Destructive Criticism: Dvar Torah for Parshat Korach
Our task is to navigate our way between constructive criticism and simply attacking institutions without holy intention. Dvar Torah for Parshat Korach Continue reading
The Self Examination of Moses: Dvar Torah of parashat Shlach Lecha
The affair of sending the people to spy out the Land of Canaan is an unsolved issue in the life of Moses. Years later, in Deuteronomy, when he summarizes his life work, he looks at this strange affair of sending the people to spy out the Land of Canaan and he wonders why he did it. Continue reading
The birth of Miriam, the birth of a prophetess
In Parashat ‘B’Shalach’ Rabbi Dalia Marx investigates the prophetess Miriam. On one hand Miriam appears in the Bible as a prophetess more times then other women’s names in the Bible. On the other hand we know very little about her. Miriam’s singing, says Rabbi Marx, transforms Miriam into a prophetess. Continue reading
Different and humane figures in parashat Shmot
Exodus begins with the story of the 12 tribes in Egypt, and every time we read it we impressed again from by the actors and the events of this parasha. Rabbi Maurisio Balter invite you to join him with a different reading of the text through the examination of the main characters, observe the Egyptian society and mainly by examining the way of treating the “other Continue reading
From Noah in the Ark to Moses in the basket of reeds
From Noah in the Ark to Moses in the basket of reeds: In the two cases the ark and the ark of bulrushes are both saving. Continue reading
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Tagged Moses, Noah in the Ark, Parashat Noah, PhD Josef Shechter, Rambam, salvation, saving, The Lexicon of the Talmud Treasure, Tikun Olam
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The Lying Connection
Rabbi Mira Raz explains what is the connection of lie in Parashat Chukat. Continue reading
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Tagged Chukat, Exodus, God, Moses, Nachash, Numbers, Parashat Chukat, Serpent
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