Because life so often happens around food, we’re spending the year exploring the weekly parshiot and finding connections to each week’s Shabbat menu. This week we have the Torah’s 48th parsha, 6 more to go! Two verses into this week’s portion we encounter the famous phrase, “Justice, justice, shall you pursue” (16:20), because Shoftim (judges) …
Because life so often happens around food, we’re spending the year exploring the weekly parshiot and finding connections to each week’s Shabbat menu. This week we have the Torah’s 47th parsha, 7 more to go! Re’eh (“See”) opens with a reminder that our actions have consequences. If the Israelites obey the commandments, they will be …
Lihi Lapid’s bestselling Israeli novel, On Her Own, is now available in English, translated by Sondra Silverston. As the book opens, a terrified eighteen-year-old girl, Nina, is cowering in the stairwell of a Tel Aviv apartment building. She has just escaped from her abusive boyfriend, a gangster who is searching for her, intent on ensuring that Nina …
Because life so often happens around food, we’re spending the year exploring the weekly parshiot and finding connections to each week’s Shabbat menu. 46 parshiot down, 8 more to go! In Eikev (“As a Result”), as the Israelites inch closer and closer to the Promised land, Moses continues to recount their experiences in the wilderness. …
Because life so often happens around food, we’re spending the year exploring the weekly parshiot and finding connections to each week’s Shabbat menu. 45 parshiot down, 9 more to go! Vaetchanan (“I Pleaded”) opens as Moses pleads with G-d to be allowed to enter the Promised Land. G-d refuses, instead instructing Moses to imbue Joshua …
Because life so often happens around food, we’re spending the year exploring the weekly parshiot and finding connections to each week’s Shabbat menu. 44 parshiot down, 10 more to go! Devarim (“Words”) is the first parsha in the Book of Deuteronomy – the fifth and final book of the Torah. In what can be described …
Because life so often happens around food, we’re spending the year exploring the weekly parshiot and finding connections to each week’s Shabbat menu. This week we have the Torah’s final double portion for this year which means we have the 42nd and 43rd parshiot down, 11 more to go! These are also the last two …
Because life so often happens around food, we’re spending the year exploring the weekly parshiot and finding connections to each week’s Shabbat menu. 41 parshiot down, 13 more to go! Pinchas begins with G-d promising a “covenant of peace” to Pinchas, who zealously defended G-d’s honor at the end of Balak – a dramatic episode …
Because life so often happens around food, we’re spending the year exploring the weekly parshiot and finding connections to each week’s Shabbat menu. 40 parshiot down, 14 more to go! Last week’s parsha, Hukkat, concluded with the Israelites’ military victory over the Amorites. This week in Balak, the frightened king of Moab – Balak himself …
Because life so often happens around food, we’re spending the year exploring the weekly parshiot and finding connections to each week’s Shabbat menu. 39 parshiot down, 15 more to go! Drought, death of leaders, poisonous snakes, and battles make Hukkat a very rough time to be an Israelite. The perfect red heifer is the star …
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