Tag: Parshas

Parashat Pekudei / פרשת פקודי

TORAH: PEKUDEI By Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum Torah Reading: PEKUDEY Exodus 38:21-40:38. Special Selection: Shabbat Shekalim Exodus 30:11-16. II Kings 12:1-17 (Sephardi ritual: II Kings 11:17-12:17). Rosh Chodesh: Numbers. 28.9-15. A LESSON IN GOOD GOVERNMENT The parshah of PEKUDEY brings the second book of the Torah, Exodus, to an end, concluding the subject of the construction…

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Parashat Vayakhel

PRAXIS The greater part of our parshah of VAYAKHEL is devoted to a detailed description of how Betzalel and his fellow craftsmen made the Sanctuary and its vessels in accordance with the plan whose details we studied three parshahs earlier in TERUMAH. While TERUMAH taught how they were to be made when they were still…

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Parashat Ki Tisa / פרשת כי תשא

Torah Portion Summary of The Weekly Torah Reading: Parshas Ki TisaNote: The Shabbos Torah Reading is divided into 7 sections. Each section is called an Aliya [literally: Go up] since for each Aliya, one person “goes up” to make a bracha [blessing] on the Torah Reading. 1st Aliya: This first Aliya concludes the details of…

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Parashat Terumah / פרשת תרומה

Torah Portion Summary of The Weekly Torah Reading: Parshas TerumahNote: The Shabbos Torah Reading is divided into 7 sections. Each section is called an Aliya [literally: Go up] since for each Aliya, one person “goes up” to make a bracha [blessing] on the Torah Reading. 1st Aliya: A list of raw materials necessary for building…

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Parashat Mishpatim / פרשת משפטים

Parshas Mishpatim Note: The Shabbos Torah Reading is divided into 7 sections. Each section is called an Aliya [literally: Go up] since for each Aliya, one person “goes up” to make a bracha [blessing] on the Torah Reading. The following Aliya summary will list the numerous laws detailed in Parshas Mishpatim. A total of 53 Mitzvot…

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Parashat Bo / פרשת בא

AND IT SHALL BE FOR A SIGN. The lessons of the Torah are not to remain in the mind. “And you shall know (VEYADAATA) today and bring it DOWN TO YOUR HEART that HaShem is the G-d in the heavens above and on the earth below, there is none other” (Deut. 4:39). The Exodus was…

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it’s not about me: what Yosef taught Pharoah

1) The symbolism of Pharoah’s dream doesn’t really seem all that hard to figure out.  Why none of his advisor’s could  make sense of it seems more of a mystery than why Yosef got it. The Midrash contrasts “Pharoah omeid al h’ye’or” with “Hinei Hashem nitzav alav.”  The Egyptian diety was  subservient to the Pharoahs…

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Parashat Toldot / פרשת תולדות

1And Abraham took another wife and her name was Keturah. אוַיֹּסֶף אַבְרָהָם וַיִּקַּח אִשָּׁה וּשְׁמָהּ קְטוּרָה: Keturah: (Gen. Rabbah 61:4) This is Hagar. She was called Keturah because her deeds were as beautiful as incense (קְטֹרֶת), and because she tied (קָטְרָה, the Aramaic for“tied”) her opening, for she was not intimate with any man from…

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Vayera – “And He Appeared”

Christopher discusses the laws of kashrot (kosher) in relation to the separation of meat and cheese. Does this Torah Portion say that Avraham served his guests (the three angels) meat and cheese together? Or is there more to this? Also, Christopher shows in this Torah Portion why the Pharisees believed in resurrection and how Isaac…

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Parashat Lech-Lecha

STUDY GUIDE LEKH LEKHA (CHAPTERS 12:1-17:27) SUMMARY OF THE TORAH PORTION Abram receives a call from God to journey from his home to the land of Canaan and is promised that he will become a great nation; Abram arrives, but later leaves Canaan for Egypt because of a famine and Sarai, his wife, is taken…

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