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Naomi Graetz
Apr 3, 2025, 4:49 PM
Liminality, Betwixt and Between: Parshat Vayikra
THE END OF LIVES WELL-LIVED On the last day of March, we were made aware of four deaths in our community. Although all four of the people who died were elderly, and their deaths followed illness, it is still shocking...
Elaine Rosenberg Miller
Apr 1, 2025, 7:35 PM
The Reckoning
A few days ago, we read the last parsha of Exodus, Pekudei. The rabbi said “Pekudei” means “numbers” or “accounting” and concerned Moshe’s tabulation of all the gold and silver donated for the building of the Tabernacle and its vessels....
Ben Einsidler
Apr 1, 2025, 12:09 AM
Freedom and A New Perspective- Pekudei/Shabbat Hachodesh 5785
This Shabbat is a banner Shabbat in the Jewish calendar. We read parshat Pekudei, which completes our yearly reading of the book of Exodus. It is also Shabbat HaHodesh, which is the last of the four special Shabbatot before...
William Hamilton
Mar 28, 2025, 6:00 PM
Revealing
“I remember that everybody was trying to protect you. And I’m learning today that you experienced that as one of the great difficulties of that time” journalist Haviv Rettig-Gur recently said to Shaked Haran. We met her last week....
Ari Sliffman
Mar 28, 2025, 5:53 PM
Parshah Through the Mediator’s Lens: Pekudei
In the Torah portion of Pekudei (Exodus 38:21–40:38), we reach the conclusion of the construction of the Mishkan (Tabernacle). The portion details an exact accounting of the materials used, highlighting integrity, transparency, and accountability. While at first glance, Pekudei...
Naomi Graetz
Mar 28, 2025, 5:15 PM
Moses Doth Protest Too Much: Parshat Pekudei
Every time we wrap up the Torah scrolls before we accompany them back to the ark we sing the song that every child who ever went to Hebrew school knows by heart: Torah (7X) tzivah lanu Moshe, which is...
Jonathan Sacks
Mar 28, 2025, 5:43 AM
Encampments & Journeys (Pekudei, Covenant & Conversation)
Right at the end of the book of Shemot, there is a textual difficulty so slight that it is easy to miss, yet – as interpreted by Rashi – it contains one of the great clues as to the...
Sam Aboudara
Mar 27, 2025, 10:30 PM
The Pancake House and the Mishkan: Finding the Divine in the Details
In a week full of political scandals, media leaks, and investigations, both here in the US and in Israel, I did what I sometimes do when I find myself searching for a bit of steadiness: I opened up the...
Ben-Tzion Spitz
Mar 27, 2025, 10:28 PM
Eternal, Divine Structure (Pekudei)
Day by day we are building for eternity ... Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come. -Rebecca Ruter Springer The last Torah portion of the Book...
David Walk
Mar 27, 2025, 7:37 AM
The Importance of Being NEW!
The first Rashi I ever learned (and this is probably true for many others) is the very first comment by our greatest expositor on Chumash: Rabbi Yitzchak said, ‘The Torah should have begun with “this month is the first...
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