Blogs & Divrei Torah
Parashat Nitzavim: Who Stands With Us?
Parashat Nitzavim begins with one of the most inclusive statements in the Torah. Moses gathers the people for the renewal…
Parsha Ki Tavo: Our First Fruits?
Parashat Ki Tavo: What Have We Done with Our First Fruits? Parashat Ki Tavo begins with one of the most…
Parashat Ki Teitzei: Living With the Questions of Faith
Parashat Ki Teitzei: Living With the Questions of Faith — By Rabbi Michael Asher Parashat Ki Teitzei contains 74 commandments,…
Parashat Shoftim: The Judge Within Us
By Rabbi Michael Asher Parashat Shoftim begins with a commandment: “You shall appoint judges and officials for your tribes… and…
Parashat Re’eh: Choosing Blessing
-By Rabbi Michael Asher If we're honest, most of us have absorbed the idea that one of life's highest goals…
Parashat Eikev: The Joyful Yoke of the Covenant
- By Rabbi Michael Asher At the heart of Parashat Eikev lies what appears to be a contradiction. Moses asks…
Parashat Va’etchanan: Memory and the Covenant
- By Rabbi Michael Asher As Moses stands before the people in Parashat Va'etchanan, he knows something they are only…
Parashat Devarim: The Torah of Memory
- By Rabbi Michael Asher When we come to Parashat Devarim this week, something remarkable happens. For four books,…
Parashat Matot – Masei: When Our Word Can Be Trusted
- By Rabbi Michael Asher Parashat Matot-Masei opens with what seems like a technical discussion about vows and oaths. The…
The Torah as the Governor of Our Passion
- By Rabbi Michael Asher Parashat Pinchas begins with one of the most unsettling stories in the Torah. At the…
Chukat & Balak – When the Finite Encounters the Infinite
- By Rabbi Michael Asher This week's Torah reading combines two of the most mysterious portions in the Torah: Chukat…
Parashat Korach: The Difference Between Being Right and Being Holy
By Rabbi Michael Asher Parashat Korach tells the story of one of the greatest rebellions in the Torah. Korach, a…
