I once heard faith defined as “believing in something when logic and reason tell you different.” But as Jews, we love logic and reason… It is part of our core… […]
This week we get to the final plagues, Locust, Darkness, and the Death of the First Born. But compared to previous parshas, relatively little ground is covered. Shemos started with the Jews being […]
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that my posts sometimes veer into the secular. A large part of that is because that is the world I […]
Parsha Va’eira is the Torah portion with almost all the plagues. And Moses, the staff, and the snakes, and Moses and Pharaoh coming head to head. Basically, if you’ve seen the […]
Aside from drinking champagne (Kosher champagne), making toasts, counting down as the ball drops in Times Square and trying to make it the BEST NIGHT EVER (Okay, I’ve never bought […]
The desire to assimilate is probably the most difficult temptation any Jew faces living in America today. On one hand, we want to be a part of the culture […]
I almost feel like my life can be measured BMIT and AMIT… Before My Israel Trip and After… The changes have been dramatic… in the way I understand and pursue Judaism… […]
In this week’s Torah portion, Yaakov dies, finally ending the Yoseif story as well as Bereishis, the first book of the Torah. It is a tender parsha, full of blessings, […]
Thanks to Wikipedia for the following: “The tradition that 613 commandments (Hebrew: תרי”ג מצוות: taryag mitzvot, “613 mitzvot”) is the number of mitzvot in the Torah, began in the 3rd century CE, when Rabbi Simlai mentioned it in a […]
With this week’s parsha we see the conclusion to the Yoseif story as not only the brothers are reunited with Yoseif but subsequently Yaakov and the rest of the family. 70 individuals come down […]
Six Degrees Of Kosher Bacon 