Essay on Parshat Pikuday 2016 11/03/2016moshe Comment This week’s portion opens up with the verse “These are the accounts of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were [...]
Leah’s Blog Oct 23 2015 23/10/2015moshe 3 Leah’s Blog October 23 2015 I was picking olives when all the winds in the world tried to knock the trees down. It [...]
Parshat Noach – The Ark of Truth and Justice 16/10/2015moshe 1 If I wasn’t living in Israel and witnessing the nightmarish situation here in the land, I would not believe the present events as [...]
Parashat Haazeenu – Connecting the Heavens and Earth 25/09/201525/09/2015moshe Comment Philosophers and scientists have been toiling with the question of the origin of the universe since the beginning of human history. Aristotle believed [...]
Leah’s Blog Yom Kippur Message 2015 22/09/2015moshe 1 Leah’s Blog September 21, 2015 A story that Reb Shlomo Carlebach once told gave me more mussar than any shiur I had ever [...]
How should a non-Jew relate to Yom Kippur 22/09/2015moshe Comment This week I was asked by one of my students the following question: Should a non-Jew that has taken upon himself the laws [...]
Parshat Nitzavim – Rosh Hashana Message for 5776 13/09/2015moshe Comment As the hour draws closer to our New Year which will mark the end of the sabbatical year, there is a feeling in [...]
Parashat Ki Tisah – The Return of Lost Souls 28/08/2015moshe Comment This week’s Torah portion Parashat Ki Tezeh opens up with a topic that is difficult to grasp – the laws of “Eyshet Yifat [...]
Why do we eat Potato Latkas on Chanuka? 19/12/201420/12/2014moshe Comment On Itamar there once lived a very special person known as Mark in Russia – but we called him by his birth name [...]
Leah’s Blog Parashat Lech Lecha Oct 31 2014 31/10/2014moshe Comment Much of the book of Genesis is devoted to the stories of the lives of our Patriarchs and Matriarchs, what they did and [...]