Sermon for Shoftim With Rabbi always taking his summer holiday at this time of year and myself always being around this month, I found...

Sermon for Eikev The theme of my dracha is leadership. While this is not an original area to hang some learning on this and many other...

What We Do on Tisha b’Av and How and Why   On Tisha b’Av, we commemorate the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans in 70...

The Broken Vav Last week's Torah portion ended on a cliffhanger. A plague swept through the Israelites' encampment, God's punishment for...

My parsha is about a set of rules that God has given us. Some rules are between us and God, like not making molten gods and rules about...

Accountability is a Jewish value The Yalkut Shmoni is a commentary on the Hebrew Bible, written probably in Germany in the 11th Century,...

VAYAKHEL You should really learn Hebrew. Translations can be so misleading... Take, for example, the title of this week's Torah portion,...

In Mishlei, the Book of Proverbs, we find a line that is often quoted: Tzedakah tatzil mimavet, which means "Charity saves from death."...

I remember a conversation with my teacher, Rabbi David Goldberg z"l, during my first year of Rabbinical College. For those who don't...

Z"L HY"D In these years, I have officiated several funerals and preached several times that, to honour those who are not with us anymore,...

JUSTICE WE DEMAND JUSTICE WE DEMAND There is a passage from the Book of Proverbs that is often included in Jewish funerals' liturgy: ...

See you on Wednesday I was - of course! - horrified by Donald Trump's press conference. He almost did not mention the hostages and...