Weekly Sidra: Beshalach (when [he] let go) Torah Portion: Shemot / Exodus 13:17-17:16 Haftorah: Shofetim / Judges 5:1-5:31 So may all Your enemies perish, O Lord! But may His friends be as the sun rising in might! And the land was tranquil forty years. (Judges/Shofetim 5:31) The old saying goes “If you can’t beat them, join them”. This is an old proverb which means that if your adversaries are stronger than yourself, it is better to join the adversaries. In this week’s Torah portion we see the final defeat of the Egyptian army by the hand of Hashem. The Haftarah portion is the Song of Deborah which ends by proclaiming death to all the enemies of Israel and blessing for our friends. I do not hate Muslims, Christians or other non-Jews. However, the Torah is very clear that the enemies of Israel will be destroyed. In our politically correct society many people including Jews want to play nice in the sandbox with our enemies. Israel has also acquiesced to the demands of others. They have given up the Temple Mount, Gaza and much more all in the name of peace. Israel has always been willing to negotiate with the Palestinian Authority; however, they are unwilling to negotiate with Israel unless they get everything they want including Jerusalem. It is time for Israel to stop capitulating to everyone else’s demands. It is time...
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What does Chanukah mean? The word "Chanukah" means "dedication". The holiday celebrates the re-dedication of the Temple in 165 B.C.E., after the Maccabee family and their followers recaptured the Temple Mount from the Syrians. How is Chanukah spelled? Unfortunately for internet search engines, there is no standard English spell ...
Since the destruction of the Temple in 70 A.D. there has been a deep desire among many observant Jews both out in the Diaspora and back in Eretz Israel to rebuild the Jewish Temple. At the present time the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple is quite impossible from a political perspective. The Temple Mount area is under rather strict Islamic control. ...
Korban Pesach (Hebrew: קרבן פסח "sacrifice of Passover") also known as the "Paschal Lamb" is the sacrifice that the Torah mandates to be brought on the eve of Passover, and eaten on the first night of the holiday with bitter herbs and matzo. According to the Torah, it was first offered ...
Amid mouting tension over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, much of the media's ire has been directed not at the Palestinians who riot at the site but rather at Jews who merely wish to visit and pray there. Far too often, the latter are depicted as "extremist" or "fringe" simply because they seek to exercise their basic civil righ ...
Parochet (Hebrew: פרוכת) (also paroches, parokhet) is the curtain on the front of the Aron Kodesh (Torah Ark) in a synagogue that covers the Sifrei Torah (Torah scrolls). In most cases, behind the parochet is also a door. This curtain represents the covering that was on the original Ark of the Covenant. The term paroc ...
Weekly Sidra: Vayikra (and He called) Torah Portion: Vayikra / Leviticus 1:1-5:26 Haftorah: Yeshayahu / Isaiah 43:21-44:23 The book of Leviticus is called Vayikra ("and He called") in the Torah, and is also known as the Book of Sacrifices. It is sometimes called Torat Kohanim - the Law of the Priests - since it deals large ...
Pesach Sheni (Hebrew: פסח שני, trans. Second Passover), in the times of the Biet Mikdash (the Temple), all those who were unable to offer the Passover sacrifice at the proper time, on the 14th of Nissan, were permitted to bring it in the second month, on the 14th of Iyar. This special sacrifice was initiated dur ...
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