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Refugee Shabbat
Bob Warren
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Diana Perreta
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5776
PDF: Tu'BishvatTreesShort.pdf
Tu’Bishvat: A Celebration of Trees, by Diana Herstein PerrettaHere in the Northeast we become concerned when the rain is sparse and the threat of fire increases. We begin to pay attention to when and how much we should water our lawns. But our usual joke about New England weather really never changes: “Don’t like the weather? Wait a couple of minutes.” So sure are we that...Read more...
Ha’azinu: Deuteronomy 32:1-52, The Song of Moses
Matilda Bruckner
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September 26, 2015
PDF: Ha’azinu Bruckner.pdf
Inscribing the book, singing the nose, tuning the ear, and turning the heartI’d like to begin by situating The Song of Moses within two frames, one textual, the other experiential. Situated in the book of Deuteronomy, this parsha is inevitably framed by the High Holidays, by all that we’ve just read and sung through the Days of Awe (Yamim Noraim), all that we’ve...Read more...
Va-Yikra D'var
Carole Slipowitz
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March 21, 2015
PDF: Va-Yikra D'var.pdf
If you look at page 595 in our Torah book Etz Hayim, Chapters 4 and 5 of today’s parsha Va-Yikra are described with the heading “The Expiatory Sacrifices.” The word expiatory is usually defined as having to do with atoning, or making amends or reparation. But as the note on p. 595 says, the animal sacrifices described in these chapters were performed for...Read more...
The Holiness and Restriction in Societal Roles: Reflections on Bamidbar
Erica Streit-Kaplan
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27 May, 2006
PDF: Bamidbar
This week’s portion is called Bamidbar, in the desert. Most of the portion deals with a census of the Israelites. The men were counted by tribes; as it says in the Torah “record them by their groups, from the age of 20 years up, all those in Israel who are able to bear arms.” If needed, these men would become a militia and would defend the community. The census only included...Read more...
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