PARSHA POSTS: MISHPATIM

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Feb 26, 2025, 6:58 AM

Rediscovering Our Purpose

People often ask me: Don’t you ever run out of material for your blog? After all, the themes seem to repeat—Israel is under attack, the world hates us, and we have lost our way. But my purpose in writing...

Feb 25, 2025, 12:49 AM

Controlling Our Worst Impulses- Mishpatim 5785

I want to share a tidbit of history: as some history buffs know, one well-known figure of the American Civil War was the poet Walt Whitman. During the war he traveled from his native Brooklyn to the south, where...

Feb 23, 2025, 4:31 PM

A Taste of Redemption

Shabbat Conclusion - Families Meeting

This past Shabbat, parshat Mishpatim, was a very special shabbat in our local region Misgav. For more than a decade, every year our yishuv, the only religious yishuv out of 29 Jewish villages in our region hosts a Project Bar/Bat...

Feb 21, 2025, 6:29 PM

Parshah through the Mediator’s Lens: Mishpatim

Issuance of Law courtesy BiblePics

This week we read the Torah portion of Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1–24:18), where we find an extensive set of laws governing civil interactions that we can relate to just as much today as ever: personal injury, property disputes, financial transactions,...

Tzvi Gleiberman

Feb 21, 2025, 6:10 PM

I Am an Accountant

3: If he comes to his service single, he must leave his service single. If he has a wife, his wife will leave his master’s care with him. Rashi explains that this pasuk teaches us an important principle: If a...

Feb 21, 2025, 5:58 PM

Mishpatim–After the Honeymoon

There is nothing that adequately prepares the first-time reader for Mishpatim. She has been sailing along a cinematic, even melodramatic, narrative, with a clear plot, a story line, characters, exciting visuals, violence, adventure, and even a series of climactic...

Feb 21, 2025, 5:44 PM

Naaseh v’Nishmah – messages of comfort in difficult times

Israelis' 'hearts are in tatters' following the return of the cruelly murdered hostages, the elderly peace activist, Oded Lifshitz, and the small children, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, may their memories be a blessing; amid uncertainty about the fate of...

William Hamilton

Feb 21, 2025, 5:42 PM

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How can forces that threaten to break me, remake me? This question, posed earlier this week by a friend in Jerusalem, is rummaging through my heart this morning. And I’m sure you know why. Our enemies continue to redraw the...

Feb 21, 2025, 9:59 AM

A Mother’s Love: Shiri Bibas & Mishpatim

After days of collective grieving, we are left with anguish and heartbreaking uncertainty. Ariel and Kfir Bibas were brutally murdered—and Shiri’s fate remains unknown. No one knows where she is. So many of us feel numb. We had hoped, against...

Feb 21, 2025, 9:34 AM

One broken tooth looks a lot like another

Yesterday was a profoundly sad day. Since October 7th we have had many dark and difficult moments, and the return of the Bibas children in coffins was another black day of mourning for the Jewish people. Our parasha, Mishpatim, deals...

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