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Dovid Vigler
Oct 10, 2024, 8:07 PM
Better Be Hated for Who You Are, Than Be Loved For Whom You’re Not!
When People Who Don't Even Know You—You Know You're Something Special! What a week it’s been for world Jewry. On Tuesday morning we witnessed the most precise attack on Hezbollah terrorists that the world has ever seen, as their beepers blew...
David Lerner
Sep 23, 2024, 9:51 PM
Knowing Your Past for a Better Future – Ki Tavo 5784
One of the stories - probably not apocryphal - that has been passed down in my family involves my dad, Rabbi Stephen Lerner, z”l, who spent a year studying in Jerusalem during rabbinical school in the mid-60s. One of his...
Neal Borovitz
Sep 21, 2024, 3:28 PM
Why Not?
Parshat Ki Tavo Rabbi Neal Borovitz Rabbi Emeritus Temple Avodat Shalom As we Americans engage ourselves in a consequential presidential election, I remember back to my first involvement in a Presidential campaign, in April 1968 when I was one of a thousand...
Jonathan Sacks
Sep 20, 2024, 8:22 PM
Freedom Means Telling the Story (Ki Tavo, Covenant & Conversation)
Here's an experiment. Walk around the great monuments of Washington DC. There, at the far end, is the figure of Abraham Lincoln, four times life-size. Around him on the walls of the memorial are the texts of two of...
William Hamilton
Sep 20, 2024, 6:09 PM
Pivotal Moments
Can you recall one of your life-changing moments? A teacher’s complement. A piece of advice at a pivotal fork in your professional road? One such moment happened for our people this week. Not in September of 2024, but a long...
Motti Wilhelm
Sep 20, 2024, 7:14 AM
It seems unreal because it is
This year seems unreal. We witnessed terror straight out of horror films, moral confusion that felt like dystopian fiction, and warfare that appears to be lifted from a sci-fi adventure. If it feels like the events of this year are unreal,...
David Harbater
Sep 19, 2024, 4:47 PM
Parashat Ki Tavo—The Last Mitzvot
If someone were to ask us to choose one or two mitzvot with which to conclude the entire list of mitzvot in the Torah, what would they be? Perhaps one would be the mitzvah to believe in the One...
David Lemmer
Sep 19, 2024, 8:00 AM
Seventy Languages, One Torah
In chapter 27, Moshe tells the nation that when we cross over the Jordan into Israel we should take along huge stones and smear them with lime. That we should write the entire Torah on them in clear explanation,...
David Walk
Sep 19, 2024, 6:18 AM
The Crossroads
We always read the Torah portion of Ki Tavo two Shabbatot before Rosh Hashanah. Of course, many rabbis suggest that the extensive section of blessings (relatively short) and curses (depressingly long) is the reason for this calendar arrangement. This...
Ruth Schapira
Sep 18, 2024, 11:22 PM
Heart and Mind
We take pride in our rationality, marveling at the intricate workings of our brains as they commandeer our daily actions. With an unprecedented amount of research uncovering the mysteries of the brain, we are continually developing new tools to...
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