PARSHA POSTS: DEVARIM

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Elchanan Poupko

Aug 16, 2024, 12:48 AM

Dvarim: We Cannot Solve Eicha, We Can Solve Badad

This week, Shabbat Chazon, we focus a great deal on the similarity between the book of Eicha and the painful Echa exclaimed by Moses. The word Eicha can be meant as a question, but it does not have to expect...

Steven Zvi Gleiberman

Aug 15, 2024, 11:51 PM

Love Through Lovin’

Can one be forced to feel a certain way? No, but at weddings people are generally happy, and at funerals people are generally sad. Unless you are in North Korea, where a dictatorship forces people to be sad at...

Aug 14, 2024, 9:29 PM

Bad things don’t happen to you, they happen for you

Are You Afraid of the Dark? Will Iran attack Israel? Will Israel dare to pre-emptively strike Iran? We are all wondering what will be. We’ve been holding our breaths for over a week since Iran promised to avenge the assassination of...

Aug 14, 2024, 7:29 AM

The Day After – 10 Av

In previous years, I’ve written about how our attempts to commemorate Tisha B’Av often feel shallow and lack true meaning. As expected, this year, many people took to social media to express the sentiment that "Never in the history...

Aug 13, 2024, 3:43 PM

Yesterday I witnessed the Khurban (Destruction) of somebody’s world

At 8:00 today we set out on our annual Tisha B'Av journey to read Eikha (Lamentations) at sites of khurban (destruction) in our times. Standing next to the burned-out Sderot police station, we will recite new kinot (Tisha B'Av...

Daniel D. Stuhlman

Aug 13, 2024, 1:25 AM

Devarim — Making Peace

Parashat Devarim August 10, 2024 This parasha is read on the Shabbat before Tisha b’Av, the day of national mourning for the destruction of the Temples of Jerusalem. When I was a teenager, we had a pair of big, tall trees...

Aug 10, 2024, 1:59 AM

Whats our “day after” vision?

For 2,000 the Jewish people have held dear a vision of a better tomorrow.

We, as Jews, have long been preoccupied with our vision for “the day after.” Since infighting brought our Temple up in flames 2,000 years ago, we've been envisioning the day after. Each time one gives Tzedakah, they are bringing the world...

Steven Zvi Gleiberman

Aug 9, 2024, 7:20 PM

Leaders Reflect

The Parsha starts off with Moshe, the greatest leader in history, addressing the Jewish nation in his final speech. As he is recounting the events over the last 40 years, something unique stands out, in the fact that despite...

Aug 9, 2024, 7:06 PM

The Torah speaks of giants, but did they exist?

Circus men and charlatans had their answer, but Moses recalls that Og's bed was made of iron - and therein lies the lesson of the giants (Devarim)

William Hamilton

Aug 9, 2024, 6:40 PM

‘Even when the world didn’t make sense to him, Judaism did’

These were the words shared with our daily minyan yesterday morning, as someone was concluding her 11-months of Kaddish in her father’s memory. She was sharing some special thoughts about his beloved life. Then she concluded, “Even when the...

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