The relationship to teachers and leadership has always been troubled – even back to the days of Korach. Korach stood apart from the rest of the Jewish people and said to Moshe, essentially, ‘You have no right to lead us, as we are all holy.’ He was right about all of us being holy, [...]

The Torah chooses an interesting word to describe the spies’ mission in Israel - latur, which means approximately the way it sounds – to tour. The same word occurred in last week’s Parsha in terms of the Ark, which traveled ahead of the camp to seek (latur) a place to camp.

There are certainly two [...]

A man once came to Rebbe Natan of Breslov and said ‘I was under so much stress about my arrangements for Yom Kippur that I was unable to pray with proper intention. What should I do?’ Rebbe Natan answered, ‘If you are unable to pray on Yom Kippur, then pray the day after [...]

As the rebbe of Izhbitz points out, the Jewish people have been involved in the planning and establishing of the Mishkan for seventeen parshiot. We have seen layer after layer of structure – the Tabernacle with its vessels, the camp of the Levites with its order, and the camp of Israel with its order. The [...]

[ June 8, 2009 9:00 am to June 19, 2009 10:00 pm. ]

The three days before Shavuot are called ‘shloshet ye’mei hagbalah’ – the three days of boundaries. The clearest manifestation of this is that Moshe tells the men of Israel not to have relations with women. In Hebrew – ‘al tigshu el ishah’. It is curious that the word isha is singular [...]

[ May 28, 2009 8:00 pm to May 30, 2009 8:00 pm. ] Thursday May 28:
11:00 PM:All night learning

Friday May 29:
4:45 AM: Davening
7:45 AM: Cheescake Kiddush

2:00 PM: Community Potluck Lunch at Elder St Park
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7:45 PM: Michah
8:03 PM: Candle Lighting
8:30 PM: Community Pot-luck Dinner (Meat)

Saturday May 30:
12:45 AM: Cheescake and Ice cream Kiddush

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We spent much of the latter half of the book of Shemot and a substantial portion of the book of Vayikra understanding, building, and orienting ourselves within the Mishkan. The Mishkan was constructed to exact dimensions, covered with tents of wool and skin. It contained within it the Ark of the Covenant, the Menorah, the [...]

With Pesach fresh on our minds, we can all identify with the strong emphasis the Torah places on freedom. We can all identify specific ways in which we are enslaved – to the opinions of others, to the physical world, to our jobs. Parshat Behar lays the framework by which actual, literal freedom is legislated: [...]

[ May 18, 2009; 7:30 pm; ]