Devarim (Deuteronomy)
|
Devarim
This past week, my youngest daughter left for a full month of camp for the first time.
|
Devarim
The second level emerges when Torah becomes not just an acquisition of knowledge and a subject-object encounter—an “I” facing “it”—but a personal meeting place, an “I” facing “you,” or better yet, a “we” relationship . . .
|
|
Va'etchanan
There are times when your love for another is so strong that it supersedes even your greatest dreams and aspirations.
|
Vaetchanan
Here's an experiment to try the next time you meet someone—it could be an annoying telemarketer over the phone or a neighbor in the local grocery store...
|
Vaetchanan
What is it about the Shema Yisroel prayer that has inspired so many through the most trying of times and has provided such meaning and purpose to help us survive even the most despairing circumstances?
|
Vaetchanan
They act so perfectly pious and ultra-religious. But once you get to know them, you realize that their ideals are downright distortions.
|
|
Eikev
You wouldn’t think that something so small and so low down would actually have such an impact. But think again.
|
|
Eikev
By struggling to improve our moral character, we become more accomplished beings.
|
|
Re'eh
Optimism and positivity. That’s the Torah’s approach to how we should view almost every circumstance.
|
|
Re'eh
So many times in life, we choose not to see. We choose to remain blind to another’s wants, needs, or pain, preferring to remain oblivious and ignore it.
|
Re'eh
“You are children to the L-rd your G-d.” If we are children to G-d, what is G-d to us?
|
Shoftim
Just as I would be falling into a deep sleep, I’d waken to the sound of crashing.
|
Shoftim
The bare trees become full of life, lustre and hope, only to fade and fall away, returning back to the earth, gone. Is there a purpose to these revolving seasons, or are we in a cycle of endless and meaningless repetition?
|
|
Shoftim
|
|
|
|
Ki Teitzei
In order to succeed and avoid being dragged into life’s many distractions, we must remain sufficiently removed from them.
|
Ki Teitzei
When the mother bird is driven from her nest, she cries bitterly for her brood.
|
Ki Tavo
Naomi is married to a very busy, goal-oriented individual. She often laments how due to his overloaded schedule, they rarely spend quality time with each other . . .
|
|
Ki Tavo
Your children’s humble present meant so much to you because it was given with such love and joy.
|
|
Nitzavim
We ask G‑d to love us unconditionally, just as we show our unconditional love for all of our fellow Jews—even those that are culturally,
religiously, socially, intellectually, or economically on different levels from where we are.
|
|
Nitzavim
Deep within each one of us lies enormous strength and a rich reservoir of wealth waiting to be cashed in—and even we may not be aware of it.
|
|
Nitzavim-Vayelech
Every day is a new opportunity for us to leave the old and make ourselves into a newer, better person.
|
|
Ha'azinu
The Jewish people’s faith in G‑d transcended structure, order, or limitations.
|
Ha'azinu
One Yom Kippur, Avner sent guards to the synagogue, ordering the Ramban to appear before him. In his palace, before the eyes of his former teacher and master, Avner slaughtered a pig, roasted it and ate it on this holiest of fast days.
|
Vezot Haberacha
Life can be full of cyclical ups and downs, but at all times we need to remember to keep moving forward.
|
