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The Law of Fairness

Parashat Behar-Behukotai 5775/16 May 2015

The reading of a double portion of the Torah is, theoretically, an accident of the calendar. There are so many parshiyot and so many weeks in the year and we… Read More

Posted: May 19, 2015 by

Racism Here and There

Parashat Emor 5775/9 May 2015

At the conclusion of the recapitulation of the laws of the festivals contained in Parshat Emor that you spoke about this morning Leo, there follows a section of Torah which… Read More

Posted: May 11, 2015 by

Baltimore

Parashat Aharei Mot-Kedoshim 5775/2 May 2015

The sons of Aaron died and the entire community, beginning with the leadership, then including the elite classes and finally the populace at large, had to learn how to repent…. Read More

Posted: May 4, 2015 by

Pesach and the Attributes of the Divine

Siyyum Bekhorim 5775/ 11 April 5775

I have been studying for the last year, and writing a new commentary on the classic mystical-ethicist treatise Tomar Devorah – The Palm Tree of Devorah by Rabbi Moses Cordovero…. Read More

Posted: April 17, 2015 by

The Election In Israel and The Future of Zionism

Passover 5775/4 April 2015

L’shana ha’ba-ah b’yirushalayim. Each year at the seder we conclude with this fervent hope that next year we will be in Jerusalem. It is only one example of the centrality… Read More

Posted: April 7, 2015 by
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