Person in the Parsha: Kedoshim

May 03, 2019

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“I GET NO RESPECT!“

I love visiting residences for senior citizens. For one thing, being around truly older people invariably helps me feel young by comparison.

Recently, I was a weekend...

Person in the Parsha: Achrei Mot

May 01, 2019

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“NO EXIT“

There is much that the Torah leaves to our imagination. Regular students of the weekly Torah portion soon become convinced that the narratives they read each week are deliberately abbreviated, as...

Off the Pulpit: When the Messiah comes

April 19, 2019

Elijah is the prophet who will announce the coming of the Messiah in Jewish teaching.

In the Bible, Elijah does not die – he is carried off to heaven in a chariot – and so the tradition expected his return....

Person in the Parsha: Pesach

April 14, 2019

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“IMAGINE THAT!“

There was a time when I would only go out of my way to listen to speakers who were older and more experienced than I. Recently, however, I have changed...

Off the Pulpit: Invisible Work

April 12, 2019

By RABBI DAVID WOLPE

While traveling in Southeast Asia I learned that certain cultures refer to housework as “invisible work” because if it is done you cannot see it. Only if it is undone do you realize it is needed.

Entropy...

Person in the Parsha: Metzora

April 05, 2019

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“MISERLY MANNER“

I no longer remember the name of my ninth-grade teacher of English literature. But I do remember well one of his important lessons. He taught us that there are...

Off the Pulpit: Is that clear?

April 05, 2019

By RABBI DAVID WOLPE

Every intellectual or academic discipline has its apostles of obscurity. There are novels which cannot be read without a teacher or a guidebook. Much modern poetry defeats the most resolute attempt to unravel its enigmas. And...

Off the Pulpit: Who is God?

April 05, 2019

By RABBI DAVID WOLPE

When you were two years old could you imagine what it was to be an adult? Not only could you not imagine it, but you didn’t understand what it was that you could not imagine....

Person in the Parsha: Tazria

March 29, 2019

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“MY EARLIEST MEMORY“

Have you ever been asked the question, “What is your earliest memory?”

I have been asked that question many times. There was a time, long ago, when...

Person in the Parsha: Shemini

March 25, 2019

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“AND AARON WAS SILENT“

He was an old man, and in many ways came from a very different world than I. And yet he taught me more than anyone else ever...