Person in the Parsha: Bereshit

October 25, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“TO BE OR NOT TO BE?”

This week, we’ll read the story of the creation of the world in six days.

From the third day on, we...

Person in the Parsha: Ki Tisa – Yom Kippur

October 02, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“A SECOND CHANCE”

Imagine a very important project in which you were once involved. It could have been at work, in school, or in your personal life. You gave...

Person in the Parsha: Ha’Azinu

September 27, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“REPRESSION OF THE SUBLIME”

It was advertised as one symposium at a major psychology conference. It was to be a discussion about memory and forgetfulness. But it turned out...

Person in the Parsha: Nitzavim-Vayelech

September 20, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“ACCEPTING THE INVEVITABLE”

All men are mortal.

Yankel is a man.

Therefore, Yankel is mortal.

You have just read a basic lesson in logic, one that appears in almost every textbook on...

Person in the Parsha: Ki Tavo

September 13, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“Didn’t You See Them?”

It is a question that I learned never to ask. I first learned this lesson in my training as a psychotherapist, long ago. I was...

Person in the Parsha: Ki Tetzei

September 06, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“THE DUTY OF CIVILIANS IN WAR“

It seems that war is one of the most common of all human activities. Study history of the human race, and you will not find many years...

Person in the Parsha: Shoftim

August 30, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HIRSH WEINREB

“TREE-LIKE” 

I love metaphors. An apt metaphor can help stimulate boundless creativity and can lead to a deeper and richer understanding of the concept being studied.

Take, for example, the metaphor of a...

Person in the Parsha: Re’eh

August 23, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“HOW AM I DOING?”

 If your child, employee, or colleague asks you that question, you can be sure that he or she is sincere, wishes to learn, and will...

Person in the Parsha: Ekev

August 16, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“DISCIPLINE AND SUFFERING”

 As a parent, grandparent, and psychologist, I am often considered to be something of an expert on parenting and child-rearing. In that capacity, I have frequently...

Person in the Parsha: Va’etchanan

August 09, 2024

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“Unanswered Prayers”

 It is a question with which every religious person has at one time been confronted and been confounded. Even those of us who are not theologically inclined...