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