3 days agoPARASHAT HASHAVUASeven values of the Masorti (Conservative) MovementWhy do we choose to be Masortim? In our Temple affiliation, we rarely find ourselves faced with the situation of choosing which Movement...
Jun 26PARASHAT HASHAVUAParashat KorachHow difficult is the election season, when we need to choose for the right candidates! How does a person realize if a candidate speaks to...
Jun 19PARASHAT HASHAVUAParashat Shelach-LechaThe expression “it depends on the eye that looks at it”, or similar expressions, show us that each one of us has more than one point of...
Jun 12PARASHAT HASHAVUAParashat BehaalotechaSuppose someone told you that you are no longer good for what you have dedicated your whole life to; what would you do? How would you...
Jun 5PARASHAT HASHAVUAParashat NasoHow many of us are grateful to those around us? I suppose everyone would say that they are… But, let's see: how many of us are grateful,...
May 29PARASHAT HASHAVUAParashat BemidbarHow do we know when the right time to do something has come? How do we know that the conditions are given to make a decision and that it...
May 22PARASHAT HASHAVUAParashat BechukotaiFifty-five years ago we woke up with the news that our brothers in Medinat Israel were in shelters, the soldiers at the front, the...
May 15PARASHAT HASHAVUAParashat BeharIn this section of the Torah, Parashat Behar, we have several precepts that were more than renewals for the society of that time in which...
May 8PARASHAT HASHAVUAParashat EmorI like to find the little messages within the parshiot, within each of the sections of our Torah. And they are always there. In each...
May 1PARASHAT HASHAVUAParashat KedoshimLet's talk about Holiness. The concept of kadosh is complicated. It is usually understood and translates as something Holy. It seems to...
Apr 24PARASHAT HASHAVUAParashat Acharei MotAcharei Mot is a parashah that resonates with us. Precisely, it is the parashah that we read on Yom Kippur. It is the one that surely...
Apr 17PARASHAT HASHAVUAPesach 5782—Shirat HayamWithout a doubt this is a special Friday. In Israel it is decidedly the last day of Passover, of a Passover that was characterized by...
Apr 3PARASHAT HASHAVUAParashat MetzoraThis week, the story of this strange disease, which attacked the skin, clothing and the walls of houses, continues. I want to focus in...
Mar 31PARASHAT HASHAVUAPesach 5782We are beginning the month of Nisan, the month of freedom, the month of Pesach. The festival of freedom par excellence. The one that...
Mar 27PARASHAT HASHAVUAParashat TazriaThere is something that has to do with the essence of what surrounds us. Things, people, environments, have an essence that can sometimes...
Mar 20PARASHAT HASHAVUAParashat SheminiOne of the most well-known, although not the most established, precepts of the Torah is that of Kashrut. Parshat Shemini tells us about...
Mar 13PARASHAT HASHAVUAParashat TzavThe story brings us the image of two flames that coexisted in the Mishkan: one was the Ner Tamid, the eternal and flickering flame that...
Mar 6PARASHAT HASHAVUAParashat VayikraThis week we begin the third book of the Torah. Vayikra means "and he called". According to the text of the Torah, it is another moment...
Feb 27PARASHAT HASHAVUAParashat PekudeiIt is always a problem to learn to manage ourselves in situations or in places to which we are not used to. I mean the fact of adapting...
Feb 20PARASHAT HASHAVUAParashat VayakhelHow many sections of the Torah can we continue to read that deal with the subject of the Mishkan, the Tabernacle? How can it be that they...