Rabbi’s Sermons

Vayikra: Drawing Near We’ve long spoken about the bond between a mother and child. But just the other day, I learned that scientists studying breast milk were surprised to find that the composition of the milk changes throughout the day. The mother’s body responds to what the child needs — adjusting in ways that support […]

Terumah — Reflections of Light Years ago, I remember standing at a wedding reception watching a disco ball turning slowly above the dance floor. Nothing extraordinary about it — just a silver sphere hanging from the ceiling. But when the light hit it, the entire room changed. Tiny points of light scattered everywhere — across […]

We often talk about the Torah as a blueprint for righteous living. But if I’m being honest, most of us — myself included — haven’t studied it deeply enough to always know what that looks like in practice. The Torah rarely hands us neat moral lessons. More often, it shows very human, very flawed people […]

Parshat Bo – Strength, Limits, and the Courage to Ask Parshat Bo is often remembered as the parashah of power—plagues, defiance, a dramatic showdown between God and Pharaoh. But if you listen carefully, Bo is also a story about limits. About what happens when limits are denied… and what becomes possible when they are finally […]

Parashat Va’eira takes place in a world where human beings have stopped being seen as human beings. To Pharaoh, the Israelites are not parents, children, neighbors, or elders. They are a problem. A labor force. A threat. A number. And the Torah teaches us something frightening: the moment people stop being seen as people, cruelty […]

At the end of the Book of Genesis, which we concluded last week, the Israelites had been invited to relocate from Canaan to Egypt to wait out the 7 year famine. After the 7 years, they remained in Egypt and, as we begin the Book of Exodus this week, our story picks up 400 years […]