In the Hike up Life’s Mountain, Don’t Wear Stilettos Finally, after much hardship, Isaac and Rebecca were expecting a child. Just as Isaac had been transmitting Abraham’s teachings, ideas so profound that they would eventually lead to the creation of the Jewish people. The expectation was that Isaac and Rebecca’s child would be the next […]
[This week was Yahrzeit of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of England. The Dvar Torah below is based on an article he wrote in 2011] A Jewish Hero: Dignified and Satisfied Who is the central character of the story of Judaism? In both of the other Abrahamic monotheisms (Christianity or Islam), the answer is […]
Outlast Your PastImagine a high school Physics student winning a national competition enabling him to work alongside Anton Zeilinger, the 2022 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics. Zeilinger tells him that he wants to slow down the electric current in a circuit but then instructs him to increase the voltage in the circuit. This student knows […]
Teachers not PreachersAbraham is instructed to leave the comfort of his hometown and go to a place which has not been revealed to him.So, Abram went as G-d had spoken to him and Lot went with him; Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran. Abram took his wife Sarai and Lot, his brother’s […]
What Does Your Ark Look Like? These are the offspring of Noah; Noah as a righteous man, perfect in his generation…(Gen. 6:9) Was Noah truly a great man OR was he great only in his generation but if he had lived in the generation of Abraham, he would not have been considered anything of significance? According to […]
