Person in the Parsha: Vayera

October 23, 2026

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB 

“REFLECTING ON THE WONDERS OF NATURE” 

I’m a Brooklyn boy, born and bred. I had few, if any, opportunities to experience the wonders of nature. I grew up in...

Person in the Parsha: Lech Lecha

October 16, 2026

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“ONE DAY WE WILL ALL BE TOGETHER”

I picked him up at the airport. He was arriving in Baltimore, where I was then a rabbi, to...

Person in the Parsha: Noach

October 09, 2026

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“EASY SPIRITUALITY”

The French poet Baudelaire once remarked that the devil’s greatest success is his ability to convince us that he does not exist.

Person in the Parsha: Bereshit

October 02, 2026

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“CREATION CONVERSATION”

Anyone who has ever taught anything can confirm the adage of our Sages: “I have learned from all my teachers, but I have learned most from my...

Person in the Parsha: Succot

September 25, 2026

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“FROM FEAR TO FESTIVITIES”

Fear and trembling.

Those have been our primary religious emotions during the past several weeks.

Although Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur...

Person in the Parsha: Ha’azinu (Shabbat Shuva)

September 18, 2026

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: Ha’azinu (Shabbat Shuva)

September 11, 2026

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: Rosh Hashanah

September 04, 2026

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“REFLECTIONS ON DIVINE KINGSHIP”

We now enter a period of the year that demands two kinds of spiritual commitment. The first ischaratah, regret: an honest inner search of our...

Person in the Parsha: Nitzavim-Vayelech

August 28, 2026

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“LESSONS OF EQUALITY”

For the past several weeks, certain ideas have dominated my consciousness. Don’t worry, these are not obsessive thoughts, and I am not a candidate for a psychiatric diagnosis. Rather, whenever...

Person in the Parsha: Ki Tavo

August 21, 2026

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

“TRANSLATING ‘KI TAVO’“

How would you translate the opening verse in this week’s Torah portion, Ki Tavo (Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8)?

Here are two Jewish translations:

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