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Rabbi Ruhi Sophia Rubenstein
Rabbi Ruhi Sophia Rubenstein
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Bamidbar: What it takes to Receive Torah
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May 28, 2025
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Wilderness
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Matan Torah
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BaMidbar
Bamidbar: Wilderness and Torah
394
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May 10, 2021
Emor/Omer
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May 13, 2025
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Parashah Study
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Sefirat HaOmer
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Parashat Emor
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Lag BaOmer
Emor: The Physical "Perfection" of the Priests
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May 2, 2023
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Emor
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Priests With Blemishes
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Perfection
Emor: Punishing the Blesphemer
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May 14, 2024
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The Tetragrammaton
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Blaspheming
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Parashat Emor
Tazria-Metzora: Priest as Diagnostician or Healer?
71
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April 30, 2025
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Cohen
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Tzara’At
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Tazria-Metzora
Vayakhel-Pekudei: More than Enough
532
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March 14, 2023
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Mishkan
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Donations for the Tabernacle
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VaYakhel
Emor: Distancing from Death
420
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May 7, 2020
Counting the Omer
457
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April 25, 2024
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Sefirat HaOmer
Shemini: Aharon's Silence
83
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April 24, 2025
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Mourning
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Aharon
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Nadav and Avihu
Pesach 8: A Vision of Harmony
136
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April 17, 2025
Tzav: The Eternal Flame
1109
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April 2, 2020
Vayikra: Moshe's Invitation
85
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April 1, 2025
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Parashat Vayikra
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Moshe
On Esther and Antisemitism
95
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March 13, 2025
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Ahasuerus and Esther
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Ahasuerus and Haman
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Megilat Esther
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Antisemitism
Purim: Turn it Upside Down and Shake it Out
635
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February 23, 2021
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Amalek
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Haman the Agagite
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Historical Memory
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Revenge
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Purim
Terumah: The Space between the Keruvim
98
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February 26, 2025
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Mishkan
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Keruvim
Terumah: Constructing Sacred Space
416
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February 11, 2024
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Terumah
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Mishkan
Terumah: Bringing Gold to Life
338
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February 21, 2023
Mishpatim: Repro Shabbat
99
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February 19, 2025
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Abortion
Va'Era: Hardening Pharaoh's Heart
193
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January 21, 2025
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Vaera
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The Hardening of Pharaoh's Heart
Yitro: Marginalization within Revelation
361
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February 2, 2021
Yitro: On Images of God - and of other things
418
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January 30, 2024
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Images
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Image of God
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Ten Commandments
Beshallach: What We Take and What We Follow
301
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February 6, 2025
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Yetziat Mitzraim
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Chamushim
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Joseph's Bones
Bo: Who is a servant of Hashem?
157
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January 30, 2025
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Service of God
Bo: What Does It Mean?
225
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January 16, 2024
Bo: Liberation Time
436
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January 18, 2021
Va'Era: Patience and Impatience
235
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January 8, 2024
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Parashat Vaera
Shemot: the Pharaoh and the Fear
962
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January 5, 2021
Va-Era: Identifying the Divine
495
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January 17, 2023
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Divine Names
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The Tetragrammaton
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Vaera
Vayechi: Blessing Ephraim and Menashe
186
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January 9, 2025
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Ephraim and Menashe
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Blessings
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Siblings
Vayeshev: the Mistress and the Slave
283
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December 19, 2024
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Parashah Study
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Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
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Vayeshev
Vayechi: The Story in the Blessing
453
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December 30, 2020
Yayechi: "The Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness"
394
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January 3, 2023
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Teshuvah
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Forgiveness
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Parashat Vayechi
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Joseph and His Brothers
Vayishlach: Family Reunion
45
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December 11, 2024
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Yaakov and Esav
Vayeshev: the Hidden Path to Redemption
466
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December 9, 2020
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Moshiach
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Ruth
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Tamar
Vayeshev: Wandering Toward Brother/Enemies
527
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December 12, 2022
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Joseph and His Brothers
Vayeshev: Of Mobs and Minyanim
273
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December 5, 2023
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Minyan
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Vayeshev
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Joseph and His Brothers
VaYishlach: Rescuing Dina
533
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November 28, 2023
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Jacob
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Dinah
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Violence
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Shechem
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Shimon and Levi
Vayishlach: Preparing for Confrontation
106
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December 1, 2020
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Yaakov; Esav
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Wrestling
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Reconciliation
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Conflict
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VaYishlach
Vayishlach: What's in a (new) name?
615
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December 2, 2020
Vayeitze: The Family That leaves together . . .
45
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December 2, 2024
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Parashah Study
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Jacob and Rachel and Leah
Chayei Sarah: Transitions
436
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November 21, 2024
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Chayei Sarah
Vayeitze: Dreams and Vows
571
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November 20, 2020
Vayetzei: Rolling Away the Stone
564
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November 28, 2022
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Jacob
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Vayetze
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Wells
Vayera: the Sin of Sodom
283
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November 14, 2024
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Hachnasat Orchim
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Sodom
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Vayera
Lech Lecha: Blessings Galore
288
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November 7, 2024
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Blessings
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Covenant of Abraham
Noach: Rainbow Covenant
160
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October 30, 2024
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Brit
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Covenants
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Noach
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Rainbows
Yom Kippur: Before Hashem, You Shall be Pure
247
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October 9, 2024
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Yom Kippur
Nitzavim-Vayeilech: Going off on Your Own
73
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September 26, 2024
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Teshuvah
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Yetzer Hara
Ki Teitze: Where We Put Our Shit
335
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September 10, 2024
Shoftim: Appoint Judges
271
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September 5, 2024
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Shoftim
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Justice
Re'eh: Obliterate Their Names
138
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August 28, 2024
Eikev: God's Eye is on the Land
464
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August 21, 2024
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Eikev
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Eretz Israel
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Rain
Va'Etchanan: A vision of the land
260
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August 15, 2024
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Va'etchanan
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Death of Moses
Matot: Shall your brothers come without you?
470
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July 30, 2024
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Matot
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Eretz Israel
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Am Yisrael
Chukat: Singing to the Well
388
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July 8, 2024
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Death of Aharon
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Miriam's Well
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Death of Miriam
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Chukat
Korach: Great for You
433
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July 3, 2024
Bechukotai: The Value of a Life
435
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May 29, 2024
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Bechukotai
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Arakhin
Behar: The Land is Mine
501
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May 21, 2024
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Yovel
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Behar
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Relating to the Land
Kedoshim: Against Molech
490
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May 7, 2024
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The Worship of Molech
Metzora: Reintegration
64
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April 18, 2024
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Tumah and Tahara
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Metzora
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Laws of the Impurity of a Metsora and His Purification
Tazria: The Cut on the Eighth Day
788
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April 9, 2024
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Circumcision
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Tazria
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Brit Milah
Pekudei: Building towards holiness
229
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March 14, 2024
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Shabbat
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Mishkan
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Pekudei
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Creation
Ki Tisa: Counting and Lifting
275
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February 27, 2024
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Machatzit Hashekel
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Censuses
Tetsaveh: Carrying the People
76
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February 22, 2024
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Tetzaveh
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Ephod
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Twelve Tribes
Beshallach: Activating God's Mercy
472
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January 22, 2024
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Splitting the Sea
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Parshat Beshalah
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Nachshon
Shemot: Seeking a Mensch
360
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January 4, 2024
Vayigash: Family Reunion
340
Views
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December 20, 2023
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Parashat Vayigash
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Joseph
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Egyptian Exile
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Jacob
MiKeitz: Of Mobs and Minyanim Continued
287
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December 14, 2023
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Joseph and His Brothers
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Minyan
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Parashat Miketz
Toldot: Unblocking Old Wells
219
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November 15, 2023
Chayei Sarah: The Double Meaning of Machpelah
497
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November 7, 2023
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Ma'arat Hamachpelah
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Chayei Sara
Vayera: Obscurity
462
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November 1, 2023
Lech Lecha: Between the Pieces
395
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October 25, 2023
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Abraham
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Brit Ben Habetarim
On the Urge to Destroy Hamas, and Noach
598
Views
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October 25, 2023
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Divrei Torah
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Rainbows
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Hamas
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Noach
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Flood
Noach: The Dilemma
144
Views
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October 19, 2023
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Parashah Study
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Parashat Noach
Ha'Azinu: The Importance of Memory
516
Views
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September 20, 2023
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Parashah Study
The Roots of Rosh Hashanah
537
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September 12, 2023
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Rosh Hashanah
Nitzavim-Vayeilech: The Inevitability of Teshuvah
197
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September 4, 2023
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Parashah Study
Ki Tavo: THIS Day
307
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August 30, 2023
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Ki Tavo
Ki Tetze: Returning Lost Objects
112
Views
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August 24, 2023
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Parashat Ki Teitzei
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Hashavat Aveidah
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Lost Property
Shoftim: The Body at the End of the Parashah*
510
Views
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August 15, 2023
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Eglah Arufah
,
Shoftim
Re'eh: The Inciter and the Condemned City
508
Views
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August 9, 2023
Eikev: Broken Tablets
152
Views
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August 2, 2023
Tisha B'Av: Torah Study
82
Views
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July 27, 2023
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Destruction of the Temple
,
Rabban Yochanan Ben Zakkai
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Tisha B'Av
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Kamtza and Bar Kamtza
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Churban Habayit
Devarim: Moshe's First Last Words
81
Views
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July 18, 2023
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Parashat Devarim
,
Eicha
Matot: Freedom to Obligate Oneself
87
Views
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July 11, 2023
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Women and Mitzvot
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Women's Empowerment
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Vows
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Matot
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Freedom
Broken Tablets, Brit Shalom: Pinchas and the Seventeenth of Tammuz
106
Views
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July 6, 2023
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Golden Calf
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Parashat Pinchas
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Three Weeks
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Brit Shalom
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17th of Tamuz
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Aaron and the Golden Calf
Acharei Mot - Kedoshim: Inside and Outside
137
Views
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April 27, 2023
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Acharei Mot
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Sacrifices
,
Shechita
Tazria-Metzora: A Plague on Your House
691
Views
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April 18, 2023
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Leprosy
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Laws of Tsara'at of a House
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Metzora
Tzav: Atoning for the Righteous Deed
404
Views
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April 1, 2020
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Parashat Tzav
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Priestly Ordination
Vayikra: the Meal Offering
684
Views
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March 20, 2023
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Korban
,
Mincha (קרבן)
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Vayikra
Beshallach: Amalek
540
Views
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January 29, 2023
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War With Amalek
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Parshat Beshallach
Bo: Reparations
495
Views
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January 23, 2023
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Reparations
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Parashat Bo
Shemot: The Cry
228
Views
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January 9, 2023
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Passover
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Shemot
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Prayer
MiKeitz: Towards Remorse
375
Views
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December 20, 2022
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Parashat Miketz
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Joseph and His Brothers
Lech Lecha: In the Thick of It
784
Views
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November 2, 2022
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Abraham and the Kings
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Malkitzedek
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Abraham and Lot
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Parashat Lech Lecha
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Sodom
Haazinu: Like an Eagle
582
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October 6, 2022
Vayeilech: Hakhel
356
Views
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September 28, 2022
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Hakhel
,
Shmita
Nitzavim: Close to You
205
Views
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September 21, 2022
Ki Tavo: The First Fruits
230
Views
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September 14, 2022
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Bikkurim
Ki Teitze: Shooing the Mother Hen
525
Views
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September 8, 2022
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Shiluach Haken
,
Elisha Ben Abuya
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Ta'amei HaMitzvot
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Theodicy
Re'eh: The Craving for Meat
659
Views
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August 24, 2022
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Shechita
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Eating Meat
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Vegetarianism
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Re'eh
Eikev: Walking in God's Ways
277
Views
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August 16, 2022
Va'Etchanan: Guard Your Soul
983
Views
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August 11, 2022
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Shmirat Ha-Guf
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Vaetchanan
Devarim: Blessing within Rebuke
464
Views
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August 3, 2022
Matot-Masei: Balancing Justice and Mercy with the Cities of Refuge
701
Views
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July 28, 2022
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Exile
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Cities of Refuge
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Atonement
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Justice
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Masei
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Teshuvah
Pinchas: The Daughters of Tzelofechad
538
Views
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July 20, 2022
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Feminism
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Bnot Tselofchad
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Parashat Pinchas
The Three Weeks
736
Views
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July 17, 2022
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17th of Tamuz
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Atonement
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Golden Calf
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Three Weeks
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Taanit
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9th of Av
Balak: Prophet for Hire
594
Views
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July 13, 2022
Chukat: Healing and Beyond
786
Views
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July 7, 2022
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Chukat
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The Copper Snake
Korach: Almond Blossoms
714
Views
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June 30, 2022
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Parashat Korach
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Aaron
,
Cohen
Beha'alotecha: Accomodations
382
Views
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June 13, 2022
Naso: The Curious and Troubling Case of Sotah
488
Views
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June 7, 2022
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Shalom Bayit
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Hannah
,
Sotah
Bamidbar: Exalted Servants
179
Views
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June 2, 2022
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Mishkan
,
Service of the Levites
Bechukotai: Recognizing Consequences
1236
Views
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May 24, 2022
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Hapax Legomenon
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Bechukotai
Vayigash: the Earliest Middle Agent?
785
Views
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December 8, 2021
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Debt Law
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Joseph
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Slaves
,
Shmita
Miketz: Joseph HaTzaddik
496
Views
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November 30, 2021
Vayishlach: Death on the Road
737
Views
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November 16, 2021
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Rachel
,
Kever Rachel
Toldot: Rivka's Struggles
947
Views
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November 2, 2021
Chayei Sarah: The Right Match
294
Views
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October 26, 2021
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Parashat Chayei Sara
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Eliezer
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Rebecca
Vayera: What We Sacrifice
652
Views
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October 19, 2021
Lech Lecha/Lechi Lach: Into the Depths
1058
Views
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October 12, 2021
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Abraham
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Pharaoh
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Faith
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Egypt
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Sarah
Beresheet: The Human Condition(s)
834
Views
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September 30, 2021
Sukkot: Vulnerability and Joy
1079
Views
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September 23, 2021
Finishing the Torah: The Death of Moshe
449
Views
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September 19, 2021
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Moses' Death and Burial
Nitzavim: Who is here?
598
Views
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September 2, 2021
Ki Tavo: The Second Declaration
272
Views
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August 23, 2021
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Ma'aser Sheni
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Tzedakah
,
Ki Tavo
Ki Teitze: the Sanctity and Degredation of the Human Body
812
Views
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August 10, 2021
Shoftim: False Testimony
692
Views
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August 10, 2021
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Edim Zomemim
Re'eh: Aspiration and Reality
722
Views
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August 4, 2021
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Shmita
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Prozbul
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Tzedakah
,
Re'eh
Eikev: The Danger of Abundance
375
Views
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July 27, 2021
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Eikev
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Gratitude
VaEtchanan: On the Oneness of Divinity
1563
Views
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July 19, 2021
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Unity
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Shema
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Tu B'Av
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Monotheism
Devarim: The First Dvar Torah
1638
Views
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July 13, 2021
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Deuteronomy
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Talmud Torah
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Devarim
Matot-Mas'ei: Negotiating Individual Freedom and Obligation
241
Views
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July 6, 2021
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Daughters of Zelophehad
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Am Yisrael
Shlach: Private Mistakes, Public Defiance
307
Views
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June 1, 2021
Beha'alotecha: Tekiyah and T'ruah
932
Views
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May 25, 2021
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Shofar
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Behaalotcha
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Tekiah
Beha'alotecha: Honoring the Silent Cushite Woman
1083
Views
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June 10, 2020
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Miriam
,
Tzippora
Behar-Behukkotai: Servants to God
635
Views
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April 30, 2021
Acharei Mot - Kedoshim: What to make of this "Abomination?"
2233
Views
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April 18, 2021
Tazria: Facing Mortality at Childbirth
583
Views
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April 12, 2021
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Childbirth
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Tumah
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Tazria
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Birth
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Sin-Offerings
Pesach 7: Carrying Joseph's Bones
917
Views
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March 31, 2021
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Serach
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Joseph
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Yetziat Mitzraim
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Moses
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Pesach
Vayikra: After the Fact
153
Views
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March 16, 2021
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Witnesses
,
Oaths
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Vayikra
,
Teshuvah
Ki Tisa: Honoring the Broken Tablets
1024
Views
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March 2, 2021
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Ki Tisa
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Teshuvah
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Golden Calf
,
Tablets
Mishpatim: Overcoming Our Own Trauma
659
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February 10, 2021
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Hachnasat Hager
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Mishpatim
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Human Rights
Beshallach: The Song at the Sea
1778
Views
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January 26, 2021
Va-era: How Hearts Harden
563
Views
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January 12, 2021
Vayigash: Overwhelming Emotions
641
Views
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December 20, 2020
MiKeitz: Family Reunion
596
Views
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December 15, 2020
Toldot: Of Brothers and Blessings
983
Views
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November 18, 2020
Chayei Sarah: Burying our Dead Together
819
Views
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November 11, 2020
Vayera: Negotiating Justice and Mercy
435
Views
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November 3, 2020
Lech Lecha: Opening to the Call
482
Views
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October 28, 2020
Noach: the Dispersion
707
Views
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October 22, 2020
Breisheet: Knowing Good and Evil
1370
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October 14, 2020
Sukkot: Rejoicing ALL Together
358
Views
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September 30, 2020
Ha'azinu: The Terrifying Implications of Monotheism
663
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September 22, 2020
Of Birth and the Birthday of the World
829
Views
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September 17, 2020
Nitzavim/Va'yeilech: Choose life - is it a choice?!
831
Views
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September 10, 2020
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"Choose Life"
,
Parashat Nitzavim
Ki Tavo: Collective Cursing
1024
Views
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September 1, 2020
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Curses
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Har Gerizim Vehar Eival
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Amen
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Blessings
,
Ki Tavo
Ki Teitze: When and If
684
Views
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August 26, 2020
Re'eh: Tearing Down the High Places
829
Views
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August 12, 2020
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Altars
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Idolatry
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Bamot
Eikev: On Blessings Undeserved
476
Views
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August 4, 2020
Tisha B'Av: Mourning and Hope
1568
Views
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July 28, 2020
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Tisha B'Av
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Mourning
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Redemption
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Mourning for Jerusalem
,
Fast Days
Mattot- Masa'ei: Remembering the Journey
985
Views
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July 15, 2020
Pinchas: Vigilante Justice?
1552
Views
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July 7, 2020
Chukat: On Grief Suppressed
1566
Views
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June 30, 2020
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Miriam
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Grief
,
Miriam's Well
Korach: Unholy Aspirations
955
Views
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June 24, 2020
Shelach: Consequences of Faintheartedness
655
Views
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June 17, 2020
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Teshuvah
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Parashat Shelach
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Tu B'Av
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Tisha B'Av
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Consequences
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The Spies
Nasso: What is a Blessing?
988
Views
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June 3, 2020
Second Day Shavuot: The Torah of Giving
655
Views
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May 26, 2020
Bamidbar: Posture and Counting
1634
Views
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May 20, 2020
Behar-Behukkotai: Land's Right to Shabbat
846
Views
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May 11, 2020
Acharei Mot-Kedoshim: the Aspiration of Holiness
914
Views
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April 30, 2020
Tazria/Metzora: Announcing and Quarantining the Impure
2160
Views
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April 22, 2020
Shemini: Making Sense of Untimely Death
1016
Views
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April 17, 2020
Vayakhel: Building Sacred Community
339
Views
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March 19, 2020
Same, Same: Vidui
353
Views
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September 3, 2020
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Repentance
,
Vidui
,
Yom Kippur
Same, Same: Unetaneh Tokef
668
Views
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August 26, 2020
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Teshuvah
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Judgements
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Unetaneh Tokef
,
Rosh Hashanah
The Evolving Essence of Torah
766
Views
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May 28, 2020
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Torah Shebaal Peh
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Evolution of Torah
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Shavuot
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Tikkun Leil Shavuot
Vayikra: the daily offerings
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