Archive: M'oray Ha'Aish

 Archive: M'oray Ha'Aish

Genesis

Bereishit

• Sins of the Parents (5782)
• Death and Taxes (5779)
• Garden Party (5776)
• In Search of the Serpent (5776)
• Clothing of Light (5774)
• Revelation and Concealment (5778)
• The First Man (5778)
• The First Argument (5780)

Noach

• Everyone Dies (5782)
• The First Echo Chamber (5779)
• Cleansing Waters (5776)
• Men Behaving Very Badly (5775)
• The Terrible Secret of the Tower (5774)
• Nimrod (5773)
• Na'ama (5778)
• The Raven - Nevermore? (5778)
• Rashbi and the Rainbow (5772)
• A Righteous Tzaddik (5780)

Lech Lecha

• Silence, Speech - and Silence (5782)
• On a Mission from God (5778)
• Covenant (5776)
• Luminosity (5775)
• Deconstructing and Reconstructing Avraham (5774)
• Love and Fear (5777)
• The Universal and the Particular (5777)
• Acts of the Fathers (5779)
• Abraham's Discovery (5778)
• Four Against Five (5780)

Vayeira

• The Inadvertent Trial of Sodom (5782)
• A Time For Silence (5779)
• The Chosen (5778)
• The Chief Rabbi Of Sodom (5776)
• It Never Crossed My Mind (5775)
• Practice What You Preach (5774)
• The Purpose of the Akeida (5777)
• Elevation (5777)
• Father and Son (5773)
• The Binding (5778)
• The Matzah of Lot (5780)

Chayei Sarah

• A Match for Yitzchak (5782)
• The Prayer of the Servant (5779)
• Walking Together (5778)
• Man of Peace (5776)
• Negotiations and Acquisitions (5775)
• Uncommon Decency (5774)
• The First Matriarch (5780)
• Death of a King (5778)
• A Living Well (5778)
• The Servant of Abraham (5773)
• Comings and Goings (5777)

Toldot

• A Little Bit of Lavan (5782)
• Family Dynamics (5779)
• Carry On My Wayward Son (5778)
• Inside Information (5776)
• Stand-Up Comedy (5775)
• Lessons of a Sale (5774)
• Echoes of Eden (5777)
• The Voice (and Hands) of Yaakov (5780)
• Esau (5779)
• Seeing the Future (5778)

Vayetzei

• Healing and Repairing (5782)
• Angels in the Architecture (5779)
• Limited Leverage: You Can't Force God's Hand (5778)
• Climbing Jacob's Ladder (5776)
• Feet on the Ground, Head in the Sky (5775)
• A Twice-Told Tale (5774)
• The Place - Hamakom (5777)
• Yaakov's Ladder (5780)
• Rachel and Leah (5779)
• From Family to Nation (5778)

Vayishlach

• Esav and His Henchmen (5779)
• Fighting Angels and Chasing Demons (5778)
• Preparing for War, Praying for Peace (5775)
• Confronting Your Fears (5774)
• Give Truth to Yaakov (5777)
• Yaakov / Yisrael (5780)
• Reuben (5779)
• The Struggle of Jacob (5777)

Vayeshev

• Unequal (5779)
• Family Dynamics (5776)
• Reading the Signs (5775)
• A Contentious Coat (5774)
• For a Pair of Shoes (5778)
• Ketz Bavel -Zerubavel (5777)
• Wisdom of the Tzaddik (5773)
• Clothes Make the Man (5780)
• The Light of the Messiah (5778)

Mikeitz

• A Cherished Chalise (5778)
• Crime and Punishment (5776)
• Staring at the Truth (5775)
• Victim No More (5774)
• In Your Dreams (5777)
• Of Spies and Thieves (5780)
• Joseph as "Yehosef" (5779)
• The Beauty of Joseph (5778)

Vayigash

• Seeing a Ghost (5776)
• Becoming Yehuda (5775)
• A Moment of Truth (5774)
• Plan Interrupted (5779)
• The Power of an Idea (5778)
• Catch the Bull By the Horn (5773)
• Joseph From the Kabbalistic Perspective (5780)
• Wagons (5777)

Vayechi

• Who Is First? (5778)
• Love and Loss (5776)
• Take Me Home (5775)
• An Inconclusive Conclusion (5774)
• Father and Son (5777)
• Salvation (5777)
• Who Are These? (5780)
• Conclusions (5773)
• The Death of Jacob (5779)

Exodus

Shmot

• Forgetting - And Remembering - Joseph (5778)
• We Are Family (5776)
• Redemption Song (5775)
• A New Book, An Old Story (5774)
• Collecting Straw (5779)
• Born to Lead (5777)
• Moses' Stop (5772)
• Fathers and Sons (5773)
• Moses: The Emergence of a Leader (5780)

Va'eira

• Frogs (5780)
• Pharaoh's Heart (5779)
• Pointing a Finger (5778)
• Devolution (5776)
• Lessons in Leadership (5775)
• Pharaoh's Conundrum (5774)
• The Fifth Cup (5777)
• And His Name Will Be One (5777)

Bo

• The Steps to Freedom (5778)
• Time for Freedom (5779)
• Total Eclipse (5776)
• It's the Children (5775)
• The Dignity of Mitzvot (5774)
• Around Midnight (5777)
• Signs (5773)
• The First Born (5780)

Beshalach

• Songs of Freedom (5778)
• The Tragedy of Lessons Not Learned (5772)
• Heavenly Bread (5776)
• Winds of Salvation (5775)
• The Long Shortcut (5774)
• "Chok and Mishpat" - From Logic to Metalogic (5780)
• The Eleventh Plague (5778)
• The Holy Habitation (5777)

Yitro

• A Holy Detour (5778)
• Dual Loyalty (5776)
• Unity, Not Uniformity (5775)
• The Good, the Bad and the Indifferent (5774)
• Reliving Revelation (5777)
• "Saying..." (5773)
• The Word of God (5780)
• The Ten Commandments: Part I (5779)

Mishpatim

• Upwardly Mobile (5778)
• Not In Heaven (5776)
• Even From the Altar (5775)
• Minutia (5774)
• Soul Matters (5777)
• 'Lex Talionis': Law and Ethics (5780)
• The Ten Comandments: Part II (5779)
• These Are the Laws (5778)

Trumah

• Divine Dialogue (5778)
• Deep Roots (5776)
• The View From Above (5775)
• If You Build It, I Will Come (5774)
• As Seen On the Mountain (5777)
• Out of Place (5780)
• Innocence Lost and Found (5778)

Tetzaveh

• No Embarrassment (5778)
• Forever (5776)
• Holy Clothing (5775)
• Searching For a Heart of Gold (5774)
• Royal Clothing (5773)
• The Selection of Aharon (5772)
• Where is Moses? (5780)

Ki Tisa

• After the Gold Rush (5776)
• The View From Above (5774)
• "And Out Came This Calf ..." (5779)
• My Great-Grandfather's Monument (5780)
• The Golden Calf (5777)

Vayakhel

• The Dangling Conversation (5778)
• Light My Fire (5776)
• Creativity (5774)
• A Prayer of Moshe (5777)
• Shabbat: Spiritual Rehabilitation (5773)
• The Seventh Day (5780)

Pekudei

• The Architect (5779)
• The Dangling Conversation (5778)
• Clouds, From Both Sides (5776)
• An Accounting (5775)
• A Happy Ending (5780)
• A Prayer of Moshe (5777)
• Bringing Down the Shechina (5778)

Parshat Shekalim

Parshat Zachor

• Blessed Be Haman? (5778)
• Purim and the Masks We Wear (5775)
• Intrigue in Shushan (5776)
• Purim: Knowing Tomorrow (5775)
• The Heroism of Esther (5779)
• Purim 5769 (5769)
• A Question of Race? (5771)

Leviticus

Vayikra

• Fallibility (5778)
• Obedience (5776)
• Regrets (5775)
• Intimacy (5774)
• "VAYIKRa" - Making Space for Holiness (5778)
• Angelic Speech (5777)
• Vayikra - And He Called (5772)
• The Mystery of the Sacrifices (5771)

Tzav

• Holy Vessels (5778)
• Matzah and Chametz (5775)
• Impetuosness (5779)
• No Hesitation (5777)
• Of Matzot and Mitzvot (5773)
• Thoughts of Sin (5778)

Shmini

• You Are What You Eat (5775)
• Separations (5774)
• In Front of God (5778)
• Silence (5777)
• When Pigs Fly (5772)
• The Sons of Aaron: Sinners or Saints? (5779)
• Aharon's Silence (5773)

Tazria

• Power of the People (5776)
• FreeBird (5775)
• Seclusion (5774)
• Turning Pain Into Pleasure (5777)
• Life and Death (5779)

Metzora

• Ignoring the Signs (5776)
• FreeBird (5775)
• Feeling Kinship (5774)
• The Sanctity of Speech (5772)
• Turning Pain Into Pleasure (5777)
• The Holy Hyssop (5773)
• Man's Duality (5778)

Acharei Mot

• A Holy, Delicate Land (5776)
• A Nation of Priests (5775)
• Rectification (5774)
• Focused Passion (5777)
• The Dangers of Ecstasy (5773)
• The Inner Sanctum (5779)

Kedoshim

• Put a Little Love in Your Heart (5776)
• Creating Holiness (5774)
• In Search of Holiness (5773)
• What's Love Got To Do With It? (5778)
• Holiness (5779)

Emor

• Sanctify Life (5776)
• Teach Your Children (5775)
• An Extension of Holiness (5774)
• The Story Behind the Story (5779)
• The Omer – Bread from Heaven (5778)
• The Quality of Innocence (5777)

Behar

• The Sinai Experience (5778)
• Seasons in the Sun (5776)
• Dayenu! (5775)
• Living and Loving (5779)
• The Omer (5778)
• A Time to Trust (5777)

Bechukotai

• Irreplaceable Theology (5776)
• There's No Place Like Home (5775)
• You Can Get Satisfaction (5774)
• Coming Home (5777)
• Standing Tall (5779)
• The Great Rebuke (5778)

Shabbat HaGadol

• Shabbat HaGadol (5779)

Passover (first day)

• In Search of Chametz (5776)

Passover (seventh day)

Numbers

Bamidbar

• A Leap of Love (5776)
• The Theory of Conservation of Holiness (5775)
• An (Un)Necessary Book (5774)
• A Divine Encampment (5778)
• The Danger of Holiness (5777)
• The Nation of Israel (5772)
• The Twenty Eighth of Iyar (5773)
• The Desert (5779)

Naso

• Value Judgments (5776)
• The Sin of Ascetism (5775)
• Avoiding Embezzlement (5774)
• A Head Full of Holiness (5778)
• Divine Abundance (5777)
• Trespass (5779)

Be'halot'cha

• School's Out (5776)
• The Seven Books (5779)
• Despair and Hope (5774)
• Moshe, Miriam and Prophecy (5773)
• A Little Pesach (5777)
• The Unfinished Book (5778)

Shlach

• Of Spies and Men (5777)
• Seeing Through Wine-Colored Lenses (5776)
• A Divine Rendezvous (5775)
• Have I Got a Land For You! (5774)
• Yehoshua (5773)
• To Climb the Mountain (5779)
• The Spies (5778)

Korach

• You Say You Want a Revolution (5776)
• A Jealous Guy (5775)
• Living the Dream; Ignoring Reality (5774)
• Perfidy (5779)
• Collateral Damage (5778)
• Rebellion (5777)

Chukat

• Embracing Torah (5774)
• An Enigma Wrapped in a Riddle (5776)
• Deja Vu - All Over Again? (5775)
• The Ultimate Battle: Morality (5777)
• To Truly Believe (5773)
• Death (5778)
• "Manna or Thistles" (5779)

Balak

• A Question of Propriety (5776)
• The Road Not Taken (5775)
• Reading Anti-Semites (5774)
• Opening the Mouth of the Donkey (5777)
• Balaam's Curse (5779)
• The Evil Eye (5772)

Pinchas

• Like a Princess (5776)
• Moshe's Mantle (5775)
• Fanaticism (5774)
• Pinchas and Zimri: The Anatomy of an Argument (5777)
• To Fight for Peace (5773)
• The Light of the Moon (5778)
• Lover of Peace or Fanatic? (5779)

Matot

• Word (5776)
• "Shall Your Brothers Go To War While You Sit Here?" (5779)
• Thought, Speech and Action (5778)
• Vows (5777)
• Reuben and Gad (5777)

Masay

• The Holy Lands of Israel (5776)
• A Lush Land (5775)
• Walking in Circles (5779)
• Half of Menashe (5778)
• Thought, Speech and Action (5778)

Shavuot

• Holiday of Giving the Torah (5766)

Deuteronomy

Devarim

• The Price of Hatred (5774)
• The Unbearable Heaviness of Being Moshe (5776)
• It's About Time (5775)
• Og (5779)
• Feeling Small (5778)
• The Words of Moses (5777)

V'etchanan

• Listen (5776)
• The Crucible (5775)
• Is "One" a Number? (5774)
• Why Couldn't Moshe Enter the Land of Israel? (5777)
• Zachor and Shamor (5773)
• The Three Sins (5778)
• The Prayer of Moses (5779)

Ekev

• In God We Trust (5776)
• Rain (5775)
• With All Your Heart and All Your Souls (5774)
• The Little Things (5777)
• The Little Things (5777)
• Walking Together With God (5779)
• Reward and Punishment (5778)
• Dancing in the Streets (5772)

Re'eh

• A Blessing and a Curse (5777)
• Show Me the Money (5776)
• Non-Prophets (5775)
• Choices (5774)
• Eat To Your Heart's Desire (5779)
• In the Eyes of God and Man (5778)

Shoftim

• Just Justice (5776)
• Democracy, Theocracy and Monarchy (5775)
• The Vagabond (5774)
• Trees Are People Too (?) (5777)
• Whither Truth? (5773)
• Justice, Justice (5778)
• From Left to Right (5779)

Ki Tetzei

• War and Peace (5776)
• Another Brick in the Wall (5775)
• Abuse (5774)
• Of Love and Hatred (5778)
• Dysfunctional Relationships (5777)
• To Be As One (5773)
• Going to War (5779)

Ki Tavo

• A Recipe for Happiness (5774)
• Dirty Little Secrets (5776)
• Gratitude (5775)
• An Old Ode to Joy (5777)
• Lost and Found (5773)
• Joy (5779)
• Reishit: Beginning (5778)

Nitzavim

• Nowhere Man (5776)
• A Holy Collective (5775)
• The High Holy Days: Belief in Man (5779)
• Return (5778)

Vayelech

• In Hiding (5776)
• Gather the People (5770)
• A Scholar Gone Astray (5777)
• All For One and One For All (5773)
• Rabbi Eleazar ben Dordaya: A Story of Teshuva (5776)
• The Idea of Rosh Hashana (5779)

Ha'azinu

• By Heaven (5776)
• Imagine (5775)
• (Don’t) Look Back (5780)
• Listen and Hear: Heaven and Earth (5776)
• Binding Love (5779)
• The Song of Moses (5776)
• The Straight and Just Path (5777)

V'Zot HaBracha

• From Sinai to Jerusalem (5776)
• Be Strong - "Chazak" (5771)
• Binding Love (5779)
• The Last Eight Verses (5765)
• Be Strong (5767)

Rosh Hashanah

• The Sound of the Shofar (5770)
• Not Blowing the Shofar: Kabbalat Ol Malchut Shamayim? (5767)
• The Idea of Rosh Hashana (5766)
• Elkana and Chana (5765)
• The Idea of Rosh Hashanah (5779)

Yom Kippur

• By Heaven (5776)
• “And though the holes were rather small...” (5776)
• Goat for Azazel (5765)

Sukkot

• Sukkot: The Universal Holiday (5772)
• Binding Love (5779)