by Rabbi Margie Cella This week’s parashah continues the description of the various types of sacrifices. Here we learn about the burnt, meal, sin, guilt, and peace offerings: what was sacrificed,...
by Rabbi Margie Cella In this last parashah of the book of Shemot (Exodus) we find a full inventory of the materials Bezalel used to make the mishkan (tabernacle), its furnishings, and the priestly garments...
by Rabbi Margie Cella Vayakhel begins with Moshe reiterating the commandment to observe Shabbat: no work is to be done nor fires kindled on the seventh day. He instructs the people to make a willing...
by Rabbi Margie Cella This week’s parashah begins with Moshe taking a census, requiring each man aged 20-60 to bring a half shekel. God designated Bezalel to oversee the Tabernacle’s construction and reiterated...
by Rabbi Margie Cella Parashat Yitro is named for Moses’ his father-in-law, who visited Israel in the desert, praising God and bringing a sacrifice when he heard about all that Hashem had done to redeem...
by Rabbi Margie Cella Parashat Beshalach tells the dramatic story of our liberation from Egypt, and the parting of the Red Sea; the Israelites pass through on dry land, escaping Pharaoh and his army. Similarly...
by Rabbi Margie Cella Parashat Bo continues the story of the Exodus, beginning with the description of the last of the plagues: locusts, then darkness; both times Pharaoh agrees to let them go, and...
by Rabbi Margie Cella This week’s parashah begins the second book of the Torah, which tells the story of the Exodus from Egypt. It begins by naming all those who came to Egypt with Jacob; once there,...
by Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields The haftarah that goes b’yachad, together with Parashat Vayechi is I Kings 2:1-12. As we conclude Sefer Bereshit, the Book of Genesis, our patriarch...
by Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields The haftarah that is b’yachad, together, with Parashat Vayigash is Ezekiel 37:15-28. In Parashat Vayigash, Joseph and Benjamin have a reunion filled...
