Messages from November 2020

Rabbi O’s Weekly Parsha: Vayetzei (Genesis 28:10-32:3) Dealing with Life on Life’s Terms

November 27, 2020
Genesis
Vayetzei

hen Jacob was fleeing from a brother who sought to kill him and (Jacob) was also looking for a wife; he had a vivid dream. He saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and angels of G-d were ascending and descending on it … (Genesis. 28: 12-17)He ended up being successful in […]

Rabbi O’s Weekly Parsha: Toldos (Genesis 25:19-28:9) 5781-2020Cold as Ice

November 20, 2020
Genesis
Toldot

Abraham clearly left Isaac as his successor but who would take over after Isaac? There were two sons; would it be the upstanding Jacob or the deceitful Easu? Rivka (Rebecca), their mother, took leadership of the situation and knew that Jacob was the rightful heir and was the mastermind behind a scheme, which required deception, […]

Rabbi O’s Parsha:Chayei Sarah (Genesis 23:1-25:18). Living in a Fish Bowl

November 13, 2020
Genesis
Chayei Sara

Imagine yourself out of town on business. You want to work out in the local gym but don’t have a membership and they don’t sell one day passes. You might say, “I’d like to ask for a special favor. I’m not a member but could you be kind enough to let me use the facilities […]

Rabbi O’s Weekly: Vayeira (Genesis 18-22)Be Aligned to be Kind

November 6, 2020
Genesis
Vaera

And he (Abraham) lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold three men stood over him; and when he saw them, he ran toward them from the entrance of the tent, and bowed down to the earth, and said: ‘My lord, if now I have found favor in your eyes, pass not away, please don’t pass by […]