Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Noah AND I WILL ESTABLISH MY COVENANT WITH YOU, AND NEVER AGAIN WILL ALL FLESH BE CUT OFF BY THE FLOOD WATERS, AND THERE WILL NEVER AGAIN BE A FLOOD TO DESTROY THE EARTH." AND GOD SAID: "THIS IS THE SIGN OF THE COVENANT, WHICH I AM PLACING BETWEEN ME AND BETWEEN YOU, AND BETWEEN EVERY LIVING SOUL THAT IS WITH YOU, FOR EVERLASTING GENERATIONS. MY RAINBOW I HAVE PLACED IN THE CLOUD, AND IT...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Bereishit AND GOD SAID, "LET THERE BE LIGHT," AND THERE WAS LIGHT. AND GOD SAW THE LIGHT THAT IT WAS GOOD, AND GOD SEPARATED BETWEEN THE LIGHT AND BETWEEN THE DARKNESS. (Bereishit 1:3-4) Rabbi Yehuda bar Simon said: One could see the entire history of the world through the light that was created on the first day. When the Holy One blessed be He saw the generation of the Flood and the generation of...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Sukkot FOR A SEVEN DAY PERIOD YOU SHALL LIVE IN SUKKOT. EVERY RESIDENT AMONG THE ISRAELITES SHALL LIVE IN SUKKOT (Vayikra 23:42) All seven days, one makes his sukkah into regular and his home in to an occasional . If rains fall, at what point may he leave the sukkah? When the porridge becomes spoiled . spun a parable: To what may this be compared – to...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Yom Kippur COME NOW, LET US DEBATE, SAYS THE LORD. IF YOUR SINS PROVE TO BE LIKE CRIMSON, THEY WILL BECOME WHITE AS SNOW; IF THEY PROVE TO BE AS RED AS CRIMSON DYE, THEY SHALL BECOME AS WOOL. (Isaiah 1:18) It is taught that Rabbi Eliezer said: If your sins prove to be like crimson, etc., – ...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Rosh Hashana RABBI ABAHU SAID: WHY DO WE SOUND A SHOFAR TAKEN FROM A RAM? THE HOLY ONE BLESSED BE HE SAID: SOUND BEFORE ME A SHOFAR TAKEN FROM A RAM IN ORDER THAT I REMEMBER THE BINDING OF ISAAC SON OF ABRAHAM FOR YOUR SAKES, AND CREDIT IT TO YOU AS IF YOU HAD BOUND YOURSELVES BEFORE ME. (Rosh HaShana 16a) The shofar sounded on Rosh HaShana is straight and its...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Nitzavim-Vayelech AND LATER GENERATIONS WILL ASK – THE CHILDREN WHO WILL SUCCEED YOU, AND FOREIGNERS WHO COME FROM DISTANT LANDS AND SEE THE PLAGUES AND DISEASES THAT THE LORDS HAS INFLICTED ON THAT LAND. ALL ITS SOIL DEVASTATED BY SULFUR AND SALT, BEYOND SOWING AND PRODUCING, NO GRASS GROWING IN IT, JUST LIKE THE UPHEAVAL OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH, ADMAH AND ZEVOIIM, WHICH THE LORD OVERTHREW IN HIS FIERCE ANGER. (Devarim 29:18-25) Had not...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Ki Tavo YOU WILL GROPE AT MIDDAY, AS THE BLIND MAN GROPES IN THE DARK, AND YOU WILL BE UNSUCCESSFUL IN YOUR WAYS. YOU WILL BE ONLY OPPRESSED AND ROBBED ALL THE DAYS, AND NO ONE WILL SAVE . (Devarim 28:29) You will grope at midday You will be seeking good advice regarding the alleviation of your troubles but there will be no one amongst you who speaks the truth, like...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Ki Tetseh YOU SHALL NOT WITHHOLD THE WAGES OF A POOR OR DESTITUTE HIRED WORKER, OF YOUR BROTHERS OR OF YOUR STRANGERS WHO ARE IN YOUR LAND WITHIN YOUR CITIES. YOU SHALL GIVE HIM HIS WAGE ON HIS DAY AND NOT LET THE SUN SET OVER IT, FOR HE IS POOR, AND HE RISKS HIS LIFE FOR IT, SO THAT HE SHOULD NOT CRY OUT TO THE LORD AGAINST YOU, SO THAT THERE SHOULD BE...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Shoftim WHEN YOU BESIEGE A CITY FOR MANY DAYS TO WAGE WAR AGAINST IT TO CAPTURE IT, YOU SHALL NOT DESTROY ITS TREES BY WIELDING AN AX AGAINST THEM, FOR YOU MAY EAT FROM IT, BUT YOU SHALL NOT CUT IT DOWN. IS THE TREE OF THE FIELD A MAN, TO GO INTO THE SIEGE BEFORE YOU? (Devarim 20:19) For you may eat from it, but you shall not cut it down. Is the...
Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Reeh THESE YOU MAY EAT OF ALL THAT ARE IN THE WATERS; ALL THAT HAVE FINS AND SCALES, YOU MAY EAT. BUT WHATEVER DOES NOT HAVE FINS AND SCALES, YOU SHALL NOT EAT; IT IS UNCLEAN FOR YOU. (Devarim 14:9-10) ANY THAT DOES NOT HAVE FINS AND SCALES IN THE WATER IS AN ABOMINATION FOR YOU. (Vayikra 11:12) Is an abomination for you. A hated and disgusting thing, not that they are...