“Korach took…” famously starts this week’s parsha. With 250 men, Korach confronts Moses and Aharon saying, “You have taken too much for yourselves since the entire congregation is holy and […]
“Your punishment will be according to the number of days that you scouted out the land, 40 days, a day for each year, a day for each year; you will […]
The Simpsons has predicted the future multiple times. They predicted a Trump presidency in the year 2000. They predicted the annoying autocorrect feature we’d all struggle with back in 1994. […]
Parshas Naso, toxic positivity, and a lesson I learned the hard way on stage.
The fourth book of the Torah is most popularly known as the Book of Numbers. As I became observant, I started referring to it by its Hebrew name, Bamidbar. However, […]
How much is a human life worth? It is a question with no ethical or moral answer. Sure you could calculate the value of various organs on the black market. […]
One morning at my Sunday school, the teacher said to us, “I’m going to leave the room and you can write whatever you want on the blackboard. Well, not anything. […]
This article was originally posted 4/26/2018 – A new ending has been added. This week’s parsha details a bizarre ritual the Jews were to perform on Yom Kippur. Basically they […]
Unclean. Contaminated. Filth. Shameful. Corrupt. Defiled. Profane. Desecrated. These are what we think of when we hear the word impure. So when the Torah labels a woman as “impure” during […]
Parsha Shimini is known for the deaths of Aharon’s oldest sons, Nadav and Avihu. With the inauguration of the Mishkan (the portable Temple also known as the Tabernacle) Aharon and […]
Six Degrees Of Kosher Bacon 