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We have the culmination of the Mishkan (Taberncle) creation and beginning of use, doubled with the beginning Aaron and his sons being set aside as high priests occurring this week in the portion Shemini. Aaron loses two of his sons to the Most High’s fire and HaShem gives us the kosher dietary laws, kashrut. This parsha has quite the storyline to follow and see how it fits together. When we last left Moshe he was setting up the Mishkan daily. This day, the eighth day it was left standing. The eighth day is a new beginning differing from the past seven days, though unlike creation the count did not begin at one again. The week centers around Shabbat, and the rest of the days’ names are numbers in Hebrew. The eighth day marked a changing of the guard. Moshe was formally inaugurating the Mishkan. Unless their camp moved [...]
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Weekly Sidra: Ki Tisa (when you lift up) Torah Portion: Shemot / Exodus 30:1-34:35 Haftorah: Melachim Alef / Kings I 18:1-39 This Shabbat we read two portions, the weekly portion of Ki Tisa and a special portion for Parshat Parah (פרשת כי תיסע – פרה). ...
La Mujer Judía refleja una pureza enorme en su manera de ser y actuar. Es una mujer integra con un nivel espiritual grande. Se cuida mucho tanto en su aspecto físico y en su aspecto interno. Es segura de sí misma; es buena madre, buena esposa y buena amiga. Es considerada una princesa, ya que todo el honor de una princesa resid ...
Time to be still and reflect after the seders while we are in the middle of Pesach after the Seders and before Shabbat. Where has the Most High met you and brought you out of your Mitzrayim / Egypt this year? When we tell the stories we are telling our story, to ourselves, and to our loved ones. The story reinforces who we are, whose we are, and in ...
This week brings in a new month Rosh Chodesh Tammuz Each month has a place in the Jewish calendar and significance spiritually. Tammuz is the fourth month. It is of Babylonian origin as are all of the Jewish months’ names. In this case Tammuz was an idol. This foreshadows problems of idol worship and destruction ...
“La mujer judía debe vestirse de manera recatada y pulcra” En sus vestidos no debe resaltar el color rojo, y sus ropas no deben ser escotadas. Hoy en día hay más posibilidades para las mujeres judías a la hora de vestir por lo que hay mucha variedad en blusas, faldas, sombreros, gorros, y más. El uso d ...
We just finished a wonderful home school lesson, and general life lesson. My son, who loves to write, became a little over zealous about finishing his lesson while I was briefly out of the room. When I returned, and checked his lessons, he had made a minor, but repeated mistake on the subsequent lessons he went on ahead and did. I pointed out to hi ...
Can we as women be “beautiful” without wearing designer clothes, which reveal more than they cover, or do we have a secret beauty that is most radiant when the focus is not on the physical? I have seen the evidence of how desensitized we are as a society in the way we view flesh, and the open display of sexuality. This saddens me, not o ...
Parsha Naso, is Bamidbar (Numbers) 4:21 – 7:89, and it is the longest single parsha in the Torah. This portion follows weeks of learning the Most High’s ways of holiness, being a community, family and relationships. As a coin as two sides and is recognized by either side, mitzvot (commandments) have both positive and n ...
Can / Should Women Wear Tzitzit? Women are exempt from wearing tzitzit because it is a time-bound mitzvah which a woman does not have to follow. If women are exempt from this commandment, does that mean she cannot observe it at all if she willingly chooses? We often see Reform and Conservative women draped in a tallit gadol. Many times it is ...
Why does it matter? This week two portions are read and we are finishing the book of Shemot or Exodus. In this week’s portions are Vaykayel and Pekudei. The prophet and the kohen are to wear different clothes. Why? Clothes set us apart and can designate authority. The prophets were in and out of the peoples’ lives and carried different ...
Kedusha (holiness) is the theme opening again for this portion. Twice Moshe speaks, about this lifestyle required of them. A lifestyle with more required and more restrictions than the rest of the Israelites. The priests and high priests were more than just religious figures performing roles. They stood in for the people, made korbanot (sacrifices, ...
El papel de la mujer en el judaísmo tradicional ha sido groseramente tergiversado y mal interpretado. La posición de las mujeres no es baja como mucha gente piensa, de hecho, la posición de la mujer en la halajá (ley judía), la cual se remonta a la época bíblica, es en muchos sentidos mejor que ...
Esta semana se leen dos partes y estamos terminando el libro de Shemot o Éxodo. Las porciones de esta semana son Vaykayel y Pekudei. El profeta y cohen suelen llevar ropa diferente. ¿Por qué? La ropa nos diferencía y se puede designar a la autoridad. Los profetas fueron dentro y fuera de la vida de los pueblos y llevaban ...
It has been just over two years since I decided it was time to take my journey with/to HaShem more seriously. By that I mean I began consciously performing mitzvot, studying Torah, walking away from treif and submitting to His will in my life. The first step on this new path was donning my talit katan, wearing it daily, all the time everywhere. Fro ...
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