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


Nov 12, 2022
Parashat Chayei-Sarah: Looking Back at Our Life
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: We are All Little Avrahams & Sarahs
What an amazingly rich parasha! Rich in feelings, in challenges, in renunciations, in confrontations, in transgressions. It narrates the...


Oct 30, 2022
Is Judaism Pro-Choice?
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: Why does evil exist?
“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: Integrity is Better than Greatness
Probably the most well-known pasuk in our parashah this week is the first: Noach ish tzadik hayah bedorotav. Noach was a righteous man in...


Oct 19, 2022
Parashat Bereshit: Believing in Humanity Despite Itself
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, 2022
Parashat Sukkot: A Prescription for Happiness
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, 2022
Parashat Haazinu: An Invitation to Witness
Who could say goodbye to this world singing? The melodies of Yamim Norayim still resound in our ears. If we could choose, perhaps, like...


Sep 29, 2022
The Search for a Positive Vidui
When I was a child I was lucky enough to learn Hebrew and Judaism in a way that I only understood when I became an adult. The Hebrew...


Sep 24, 2022
Parashat Vayelech—Shabbat Shuvah: An Act of Teshuva (Repentance)
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, 2022
Parashat Nitzavim: The Pressure to Commit
Atem nitzavim hayom kulchem lifnei Adonai— “All of you today stand tall before the Creator.” Thus begins our parasha. It speaks to all of...


Sep 10, 2022
Parashat Ki-Tavo: To Be Present
Parashat Ki-Tavo includes, as usually happens, in the last sections, many references to mitzvot of which Moshe reminds the People of...


Sep 3, 2022
Parashat Ki-Tetze: Take Advantage of Your 30 Days
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 31, 2022
Yaakov—A role model for Yamim Norayim
We are going through the month of Elul and obviously we find ourselves again after a year in the same place of scrutinizing our interior,...


Aug 27, 2022
Parashat Shoftim: A King Must Remember Who is Above Him
If you wanted a parasha that would make you think about several topics with a single reading, that is the one that summons us this week....


Aug 20, 2022
Parashat Re'eh—Rosh Chodesh Elul: Look, Observe
Re'eh. Look. Observe. Sometimes it is difficult for us to distinguish between good and bad. And, above all, learn to discern and choose...


Aug 13, 2022
Parashat Ekev: Does the Lord Ask Too Much of Us?
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...
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