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Torah Portion & Candle LightingThe Shorter Way May Not Be Best After All
February 2, 2012 | This week's Torah reading begins with a rather astounding verse: "Now when Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines because it was nearer" (Exodus 13:17).  |
Softening Hard Hearts? Portion Provides a Clue
January 26, 2012 - Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell | | We live in the space between birth and death, between death and birth. For some, the span between our entrance into and our departure from the world is brief. |
Divine Power Is Absolute, but Humans Do Matter
January 19, 2012 | | Beginning with last week's Torah portion and continuing through this week's and those to follow, the story of the Exodus is full of miraculous wonders -- we read, in particular, this week of the first seven of the Ten Plagues -- a dramatic escape and an awe-inspiring finale at the Sea of Reeds. |
Even Everyday Moments Have Special Meaning
January 5, 2012 - Adam Taxin | | In this week's Torah reading, we reach the end of the book of Genesis, the book of the Bible that more than any other is filled with absorbing stories that we treasure, from the seven days of creation to Noah's ark, from Abraham and Isaac's encounter with the ram at the top of Mt. Moriah to Jacob wrestling with the angel as he returns to the land of his birth. |
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