The very last of the vessels of the Mishkan is finally described in chapter 30, as we learn of the kiyor, the washbasin the kohanim were to utilize before involving themselves in the service of the …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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2/20/19
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Last year, I spent a week in Poland with Orayta, and had an experience I still cannot get out of my head. The wind was howling as we walked into the forest of Zvilitovska Gora, a suburb of Tarnow, …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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2/20/19
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A jazz pianist complained to the club owner about the piano, but the owner did nothing. Angry and frustrated, the pianist announced that he would not show up for work until the piano was …
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By Rabbi Marc D. Angel
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2/20/19
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It is a moment of the highest drama. In Ki Tisa, the Israelites, forty days after the greatest revelation in history, have made an idol. G-d threatens to destroy them. Moshe, exemplifying the …
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By Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks
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2/20/19
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There are two well-known verses in Shemot that express the concept of Hashem’s dwelling among the Jewish people. The first instance appears in last week’s parasha, “And they …
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Rabbi David Etengoff
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2/13/19
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It is interesting to note the absence of Moshe from the parsha of Tetzaveh. For once, Moshe, the hero, the leader, the liberator, the lawgiver, is off-stage, and the only instance where the name …
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By Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks
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2/13/19
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Until 1968, American’s celebrated February 12 as Abraham Lincoln’s birthday and February 22 as George Washington’s birthday. These commemorations were then replaced with …
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By Rabbi Marc D. Angel
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2/13/19
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My interest in the relationship between a person and their clothing goes back to my early days in graduate school. I was taking a course on human personality, under the tutelage of a remarkably …
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By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
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2/13/19
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A year ago, 17 families’ worlds and lives were turned upside down, as were the lives of countless relatives, friends and communities with the horrific shooting in Parkland, FL.
A …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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2/13/19
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In 1860, a relatively unknown one-term congressman named Abraham Lincoln stunned the country by prevailing over three prominent rivals — William Seward, Salmon Chase, and Edward Bates …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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2/13/19
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