Weekly Words of Torah

For the past 80-plus years, the Torah Fund Campaign of Women’s League for Conservative Judaism, the dedicated philanthropy of Women’s League for Conservative Judaism, has been supporting scholarships and programs in the worldwide Conservative/Masorti institutes of higher Jewish learning, The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles, Schechter Institutes of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano in Buenos Aires, and Zacharias Frankel College in Potsdam. The 2024-2025 / 5785 Torah Fund General Campaign is Am Yisrael Chai! The People of Israel Live!

The WWOT, the Weekly Words of Torah, each week through the end of June 2025, will delve into the idea of Am Yisrael Chai – The People of Israel Live.

Parashat Ki Teitzei 5784

September 9, 2024

by Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields The maftir portion, the final aliyah for this week’s Torah reading, Parashat Ki Teitzei is the same maftir reading for Shabbat Zachor, the Shabbat before Purim, verses...

Parashat Shoftim 5784

September 5, 2024

by Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields Parashat Shoftim has many important lessons for all people, and specifically for Am Yisrael, the people of Israel. The name of the Torah reading, Shoftim,...

Parashat Eikev 5784

August 24, 2024

by Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields We read in Parshat Eikev, “For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams and springs and fountains issuing from plain and hill; a land...

Parashat Matot-Masei 5784

August 3, 2024

by Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields This Shabbat, we read the double Torah reading of Matot-Masei, which concludes the Book of Numbers, Sefer Bamidbar. The children of Israel, B’nai Yisrael,...

Parashat Pinchas 5784

July 27, 2024

by Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields Although the story of Korach and his rebellion, and being swallowed up by the earth was in the Torah Reading several weeks ago, in this week’s Torah Reading, Parashat...

Parashat Balak 5784

July 20, 2024

by Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields In this week’s Torah Reading, Parashat Balak, Balaam, the non-Israelite prophet and diviner, describes the Children of Israel, B’nai Yisrael, as “a people...

Parashat Chukat 5784

July 13, 2024

by Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields Towards the conclusion of this week’s Torah reading, Parashat Chukat, we read that as the children of Israel make their way to the Land of Israel, they interact...

Parashat Korach 5784 - Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

July 6, 2024

by Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields Pirkei Avot 5:17, Ethics of our Ancestors, teaches. “Every argument that is for [the sake of] heaven’s name, it is destined to endure. But if it is not for [the...

Parashat Sh’lach 5784

June 29, 2024

by Rabbi Margie Cella At God’s command, Moses sends 12 men to scout out the land of Canaan before entering it. They spent 40 days traversing the land, returning with a cluster of grapes that required two...

Parashat Beha’alotcha 5784

June 22, 2024

by Rabbi Margie Cella After designating the Levites to take the place of the firstborn in administering the service of the Tabernacle, God instructed that the people observe Pesach on the 14th day of the...

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