by Rabbi Margie Cella This week’s parashah begins with God addressing Moses, charging him to deliver a message to the nation, explaining in great detail how they are to construct a portable...
by Rabbi Margie Cella The outlines of the covenant have been given; the next step is to build a sanctuary; God instructs Moses to ask the people to bring a terumah, a free-will offering of all the...
by Rabbi Margie Cella In this week’s parashah, God directs Moses to list many more of the mishpatim, the laws, which form the terms of the brit (covenant) defining the relationship...
by Rabbi Margie Cella This week’s parashah is well-known for including the first telling of the encounter between Israel and God at Sinai and the giving of the Ten Commandments. But it is the...
by Rabbi Margie Cella Parashat Beshalach tells the dramatic story of our liberation from Egypt. The nation went out into the desert, guided by a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night....
by Rabbi Margie Cella Parashat Bo tells us of the continued confrontations between Moses and Pharaoh, beginning with the description of the eighth and ninth plagues: first locusts, followed by thick...
by Rabbi Margie Cella In this week’s parashah Moses receives his commission from God, Who has heard the outcry of the enslaved Israelites and, remembering the covenant made with Abraham, now recruits him...
by Rabbi Margie Cella This week’s parashah begins the second book of the Torah, which tells the story of the Exodus from Egypt. Here we are introduced to Moses, the future redeemer of the nation,...
by Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields In Parashat Vayechi, we see Jacob on his deathbed, ready to bless his children. Later in the Torah Reading, Joseph is also on his deathbed. This final Torah Reading...
by Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields In Parashat Vayigash we read of Joseph reconciling with his brothers. Whose responsibility is it to see people reconcile? Does it have to be only those parties...
