Showing posts with label Torah Portion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Torah Portion. Show all posts
Friday, July 31, 2026

Parsha Eikev: The Hedonic Treadmill According to Moses

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Many Jews encounter this week's Torah portion every single day without even realizing it. The verse of Deuteronomy 8:10, "You shall...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Parsha Vayetze: Thanksgiving and Experiencing Gratitude in the Unexpected

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Across the United States today, families are gathering to celebrate the holiday of Thanksgiving. While a huge feast is common, Thanksgiving ...
Thursday, July 11, 2024

Parsha Chukat: What A Military Encounter Can Teach About Personal Development

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The Israelites had been wandering in the desert for forty years. They were trying to get to the land of Israel, but they kept running into v...
Thursday, February 2, 2023

Parsha Beshalach: Bitter Waters and How Perspective Is Key

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Water is essential to life.  It is an intrinsic part of life, as we see in this week's Torah portion. The Sea of Reeds opened and the Is...
Friday, November 5, 2021

Parsha Toldot: The Timeless Lesson of How Envy Causes Harm and How to Minimize It

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I have studied multiple languages over the years, and I have been amazed at how much we rely on idioms in the English language. Idioms make ...
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Thursday, August 8, 2019

Parsha Devarim: It's Not a Matter of Whether to Rebuke, but How

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Moses did much for the Jewish people. Not only did he help free the Israelites from slavery, but he led them through the desert for forty ye...
Friday, November 9, 2018

Parsha Toldot: Why Was Isaac Blind, and What Does That Have to Do With Family or Authentic Living?

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As someone who loves studying languages, it's always interesting to learn the meaning of words because the same word can have multiple m...
Thursday, September 6, 2018

Parsha Nitzavim: G-d Is Not a Fan of Self-Delusion or Hypocrisy

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"Above all else, do not lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he cannot distin...
Thursday, August 9, 2018

Parsha Re'eh: A Spiritual Life Lesson on Judaism's Prohibition of Mixing Meat and Dairy

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Food plays such a major role in our lives. We eat three meals a day, not to mention food is a great way to bring people together. What we do...
Friday, June 8, 2018

Parsha Shelach: Challah--The Greatest Mitzvah Since Sliced Bread

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For many cultures over time, bread has been a simple, cheap, and versatile food: pita, baguettes, naan, tortillas, sourdough, ciabatta. Brea...
Thursday, January 18, 2018

Parsha Bo - Note to Pharaoh: A Little Humility Goes a Long Way

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"I was wrong" are some of the most difficult words one could utter. They shutter the disillusion that we, as humans, could be perf...
Thursday, November 23, 2017

Parsha Vayetze: Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right, Especially in Business Transactions

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When looking at the Torah, Jacob had a very interesting life story. He starts out as fighting with his brother, Esau, in the womb (Genesis 2...
Thursday, November 2, 2017

Parsha Vayera: Abraham's Argument About Sodom and Building a Relationship with G-d

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Sometimes it seems difficult to have a relationship with G-d. One reason has to do with the very nature of G-d. After all, G-d is Infinite, ...
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Thursday, October 19, 2017

Parsha Noach: Was Noah Really All That Righteous?

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It's all relative.  The intuition behind that idiom is that something may or may not be what it seems depending on what that something i...
Thursday, June 15, 2017

Parsha Shelach: The Spiritual Fringe Benefits of Wearing Tzitzit Are in the Details

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"Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them." Marc Jacobs might be a gay, non-observant Jewish fashion designer, but he has ...
Thursday, May 18, 2017

Parsha Bechukotai: Our Homes as a Sanctuary for Holiness

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Some think that to find holiness, you have to venture halfway across the world to a monastery to seek solitude or some other holy site to fe...