My Pathway
We have known one another for more than a year now and I have never told you who I am or why I decided to be a Rabbi. I grew up in the...
- Nov 26
Parashat Vayetze
This parashah invites us to check a very special process: the one about how a complicated, intricate and twisted person in his...
- Nov 19
Parashat Toldot
"Veele toldot Yitzchak ben Avraham: Avraham holid et Yiztchak."—"And these are the generations of Yitzchak, Avraham's son: Avraham begot...
- Nov 12
Parashat Chayei-Sarah
The book of Melachim begins with the story of the old King David. An image that shows a king who can no longer rule his kingdom, nor his...
- Nov 5
Parashat Vayera
What an amazingly rich Parashah! Rich in feelings, in challenges, in renunciations, in confrontations, in transgressions. It narrates the...
- Oct 29
Parashat Lech Lecha
“The Lord said to Avram: Leave your land, your birthplace, your father’s house.” What can this be compared to? To a man who travels from...
- Oct 22
Parashat Noach
Probably the most well-known pasuk in our parashah this week is the first: “Noach ish tzadik hayah bedorotav.”—“Noach was a righteous man...
- Oct 19
Parashat Bereshit
We start again. The cycle that we hope will never be interrupted, in which we finish the reading of the Torah and immediately restart it...
- Oct 8
Parashat Sukkot
Kohelet, Ecclesiastes, is the Megilah we read in the Sukkot. It reminds us that there is a time for everything in life, while wondering...
- Oct 1
Parashat Haazinu
Who could say goodbye to this world singing?... The melodies of Yamim Norayim still resound in our ears. If we could choose, perhaps,...
- Sep 24
Parashat Vayelech—Shabbat Shuvah
The marathon has already started. We are going through the Yamim Noraim, the Days of Awe. We are in the middle of Aseret Yemei Teshuvah,...
- Sep 17
Parashat Nitzavim
“Atem nitzavim hayom kulchem lifnei Adonai”—“All of you today stand tall before the Creator.” Thus begins our parashah. It speaks to all...
- Sep 10
Parashat Ki-Tavo
Parashat Ki-Tavo includes, as usually happens, in the last sections, many references to mitzvot of which Moshe reminds the People of...
- Sep 3
Parashat Ki-Tetze
We are already aware that we are going through the month of Elul. If you haven't started your personal review for the year that is about...
- Aug 27
Parashat Shoftim
If you wanted a parashah that would make you think about several topics with a single reading, that is the one that summons us this week....
- Aug 20
Parashat Reeh—Rosh Chodesh Elul
Reeh. Look. Observe. Sometimes it is difficult for us to distinguish between good and bad. And, above all, learn to discern and choose...
- Aug 13
Parashat Ekev
What does the Kadosh Baruch Hu (the Lord) ask from us? It seems that He asks us everything. It seems that He demands a total dedication...
- Aug 6
Parashat Vaetchanan—Shabat Nachamu
What is “being holy” all about? There is a parashah in which the Creator compels us to be holy, as He Himself is: Parashat Kedoshim. Our...
- Jul 30
Parashat Devarim
The parashah that we are reading this week is Parashat Devarim. It is the first of the 5th and last book of the Torah. In this parashah...
- Jul 23
Parashat Matot-Masei
This week we read two parshiot that, depending on the year, are read together or separately. This year, together (or mechubarot). In...