What Makes a Holiday Important?
“There are four days in the year that serve as the New Year, each for a different purpose: On the first of Nisan is the New Year for...
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- Jan 28
Parashat Beshalach
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 21
Parashat Bo
We are at the end of the plague series. In our parashah we find the last 3 plagues: locusts, darkness and, of course, the worst of all,...
- Jan 14
Parashat Vaera
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 7
Parashat Shemot
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,...
- Dec 31
Parashat Vayechi
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
Chosen Messi
As I write this, some days ago Argentina became the world champion for the third time in the history of the World Cup of Football...
- Dec 24, 2022
Parashat Vayigash
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 17, 2022
Parashat Miketz
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 10, 2022
Parashat Vayeshev
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 3, 2022
Parashat Vayishlach
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...
- Nov 30, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
Parashat Toldot
וַֽיִּגְדְּלוּ֙ הַנְּעָרִ֔ים וַיְהִ֣י עֵשָׂ֗ו אִ֛ישׁ יֹדֵ֥עַ צַ֖יִד אִ֣ישׁ שָׂדֶ֑ה וְיַעֲקֹב֙ אִ֣ישׁ תָּ֔ם יֹשֵׁ֖ב אֹהָלִֽים׃ וַיֶּאֱהַ֥ב...
- Nov 12, 2022
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, 2022
Parashat Vayera
What an amazingly rich Parashah! Rich in feelings, in challenges, in renunciations, in confrontations, in transgressions. It narrates the...
- Oct 30, 2022
Is Judaism Abortionist?
Is Judaism “abortionist”? A question that may bother many. A sensitive issue that divides societies and, in American society, it seems to...
- Oct 29, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
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...
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