PARSHA POSTS: BECHUKOTAI

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Daniel D. Stuhlman

Aug 9, 2024, 1:28 AM

Parashat Bechukotai — A struggle to gain knowledge

Parashat Bechukotai -- A struggle to gain knowledge June 1, 2024 The parasha opens with an “if” statement, if you follow my statutes, then I will reward you with favorable weather for your crops. This section along with a section in...

Jul 2, 2024, 7:31 PM

Unleashing the Promise of Prosperity & Peace in our Land

If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito The opening words of the Torah portion of Bechukosai are filled with promises of peace and prosperity in our Land. Now, more than ever, we are...

Jun 7, 2024, 6:20 PM

When bad things happen to good people: Parshat Bechukotai

This week's Torah portion, Bechukotai, brings up the profound and long standing philosophical question of theodicy, of justice and why bad things happen to good people: “If you walk in my ways, and guard my commandments, and do them,...

Jun 1, 2024, 9:47 AM

A ‘Hebrew’ Walks Against the Current

To be a “Hebrew” means to be willing and able to stand alone against folly, untruth, and immorality. Why was the first Jew, Avrohom, called “Ha'Ivri - The Hebrew?” asks the Medrash. Ivri (Hebrew) is derived from the word ʿever', a...

Frederick L. Klein

Jun 1, 2024, 12:35 AM

Parashat B’Chukotei: Laying Claim to the Land of Israel

What does it mean to have ownership in this world, to lay claim to so-called rights? How does a nation- a sociological category- claim a ‘natural right’ to a land? In the case of the Land of Israel, many...

William Hamilton

May 31, 2024, 6:51 PM

How can we keep our chins up? With so much scorn criss-crossing our online feeds? One way we can, is by drawing strength from others who can. Tal is 21. She was among the 7 IDF Tank Soldiers who, on...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

May 31, 2024, 6:50 PM

Why is Judaism so conservative? Where did G^d order us to imitate our ancestors?

A new idea about an old idea We address at the top of our daily prayers "the G^d of Abraham, the G^d of Isaac, and the G^d of Jacob." Of course, there is only one G^d. It must mean they...

May 31, 2024, 6:43 PM

B-chukotai and Israel’s Numbers

“You shall give chase to your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword: Five of you shall give chase to a hundred, and a hundred of you shall give chase to ten thousand …” (Leviticus 26:7-8)...

May 31, 2024, 12:12 PM

Since October 7th there are occasions that are difficult to mark and Torah portions that are excruciating. The rawness and the details are too familiar and painful. They do not speak of potential realities rather in an alarming manner...

Carol Green Ungar

May 31, 2024, 12:11 PM

The Torah Is Real

It’s hard to take the Torah seriously. I know I didn’t, not for a long time. Sure, the text had moving moments; Abraham’s pleas to G-d to save Sodom, Moses saving the lost lamb, the midwives defying Pharaoh to...

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