Tag: Parsha
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Rebbitzen’s Reflection Noach
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Why Are We Building? When my children were young, our home was full of builder characters like Bob the Builder and Handy Manny because building is exciting and seems like fun. Repeatedly, to the extent that I still can hear it, the toy workbench played sage advice: measure twice, cut…
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Rebbetzin’s Reflection Nitzavim
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The Heart of the Matter Parshat Nitzavim is traditionally read on the Shabbos immediately preceding Rosh Hashanah. In a parsha consisting of only forty pesukim, the Hebrew word for heart (lev—לֵב) appears an astonishing eleven times and is heavily concentrated within the pesukim of teshuva (Devarim 30:1–10), where it appears…
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Rebbetzin’s Reflection Ki Teitzei
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Everything is Awesome…sometimes! “Ki teitzei” When you go out.(Devarim 21:10) Ki Teitzei does not promise that life will stay predictable. Its opening words, “when you go out,” recognize that life regularly takes us beyond the familiar. The parsha gives us a Torah response: expect the unexpected and, prepare for it.…
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Pulse of the Parsha – Shoftim
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Measuring Motivations: Morality, Misdeeds, and the Month of Elul The prohibition against accepting a bribe is not one of the Torah’s laws that anyone accuses of irrelevance. This week, the WSJ reported that since rising to power in 2012, Chinese paramount leader and president Xi Jinping has disciplined more than…
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Rebbitzen’s Reflection
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Parshas Re’eh: Seeing Clearly “See—I place before you today blessing and curse.” (Devarim 11:26) Moshe opens this week’s parsha with one powerful word: “Re’eh”—”See.” Moshe doesn’t begin by saying listen or understand. He says, see. Summer has a way of shifting our focus. With August here and Elul approaching, it’s…