Yehiel Poupko

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Jul 28, 2020, 11:20 PM

Bridges near, bridges far: Honoring John Lewis

Representative John Lewis was carried across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday, July 26, 2020, 55 years after he was nearly beaten to death by Alabama State Troopers while leading the March on Selma on March 7, 1965. On...

Nov 12, 2015, 7:40 PM

This Week’s Parasha Is Brought to You by Lekh

The first word the Kadosh Barukh Hu speaks to Avraham is ‘lekh’. Avraham listens and goes walking with, and after, and in pursuit of the Kadosh Barukh Hu. When the Kadosh Barukh Hu presents the instruction that describes what...

Nov 4, 2015, 11:22 PM

Ohel Sara: Eden Redeemed

Twice we are invited into the tent of Sarah. The first time is when God asks Avraham, “Where is your wife Sarah?” Avraham answers, “There in the tent.” At this meeting Sarah is promised by God that she will...

Oct 28, 2015, 7:33 PM

Nothing Happened to Yitzhak

Nothing happened to Yitzhak. He was bound on the altar. That was it. The knife did not touch his throat. The fire was not kindled. He was not consumed by the unkindled fire, nor was he reduced to ashes,...

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Rabbi Yehiel Poupko is Rabbinic Scholar at the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.