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Parashat Chukat-Balak: Purity Among the Impure
Parashat Chukat-Balak contains rich themes to reflect upon. The Para Adumah (Red Heifer), the death of Miriam, the people's complaint...
Jun 29, 2023


Parashat Korach: How can we trust a leader?
How can we realize if a leader is positive or not? How can we determine if the words we hear from someone seeking a position, regardless...
Jun 23, 2023


Parashat Shlach Lecha: The World Depends on Us
Parashat Shlach Lecha is the portion in which Moses sends spies, at the request of the Lord, to Canaan to investigate whether it was a...
Jun 15, 2023


Parashat Beha'alotcha: Opening Our Hearts During Hard Times
Parashat Beha'alotcha places us in a complicated moment during the journey of the people of Israel in the desert. Many well-known...
Jun 7, 2023


Parashat Naso: Lifting Up the Fallen
The fact that we are numbers in this world is not new. We are the social security number, the driver's license number, and the passport...
Jun 2, 2023


Parashat Tzav: How do we deal with violent people?
Parashat Tzav describes how the offerings should be made and how the Kohanim should conduct themselves during those rituals. This theme...
Mar 26, 2023


Parashat Vayikra: Atoning for Our Faults
We are starting a new book: Vayikra. And this is one of the most complicated in the Torah. It's not that it's hard, because it really...
Mar 19, 2023


Parashat Vayekhel-Pekudei: The Privilege of Consecration
This week's parashiot seem, at first glance, to be of no importance. They are sections that, depending on the year, are read together or...
Mar 12, 2023


Parashat Ki Tisa: A Need to Feel Leadership
Ki Tisa, the Torah portion we read this Shabbat contains one of the most dramatic events in all of Biblical narrative: the incident of...
Mar 6, 2023


Parashat Beshalach: Signs that God is Present
We arrived to one of those moments in Biblical narrative that are not only culminating, but special: the crossing of the sea of reeds,...
Jan 28, 2023


Parashat Bo: Choosing the Side of Good or Evil
We are at the end of the plague series. In our parasha we find the last 3 plagues: locusts, darkness and, of course, the worst of all,...
Jan 21, 2023


Parashat Vaera: Learning How to be Free
Sometimes it seems to us that our work is paying off, and it turns out that it is not. Sometimes it seems to us that we are failing in...
Jan 14, 2023


Parashat Shemot: The Leaders & Heroes of Judaism
Who are the leaders and heroes that our tradition gives us? We have seen countless times how our heroes are beings of flesh and blood,...
Jan 7, 2023


Parashat Vayechi: The Purity of Love Between Grandparents & Grandchildren
We are concluding the first book of the Torah, Genesis. If we take a step back and look in perspective, after the surprising and...
Dec 31, 2022


Parashat Vayigash: Hate Between Brothers
Sinat achim. Hate between brothers. The word hate is something strong. But so it is when siblings stop talking to each other. This week’s...
Dec 24, 2022


Parashat Miketz: Deception and Perception
We often say that appearances are deceiving. It is a well-known saying. And it is in the Torah above all. Through the different parashot...
Dec 17, 2022


Parashat Vayeshev: We Are Not Unique
It’s amazing how, in most cases, we need life or someone to shake us to react and change. We require an event, or strong words, or even...
Dec 10, 2022


Parashat Vayishlach: Running From Ourselves
What do we run from when we run? We do not always have the integrity, nor the wisdom, nor the strength to face those people or things...
Dec 3, 2022


Parashat Vayetze: Everything Has a Remedy
This parasha invites us to check a very special process: the one about how a complicated, intricate and twisted person in his...
Nov 26, 2022


Parashat Toldot: There are No Perfect Parents
וַֽיִּגְדְּלוּ֙ הַנְּעָרִ֔ים וַיְהִ֣י עֵשָׂ֗ו אִ֛ישׁ יֹדֵ֥עַ צַ֖יִד אִ֣ישׁ שָׂדֶ֑ה וְיַעֲקֹב֙ אִ֣ישׁ תָּ֔ם יֹשֵׁ֖ב אֹהָלִֽים׃ וַיֶּאֱהַ֥ב...
Nov 19, 2022
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