Tag: God’s help

Moses Annuls a Vow (Ki Tissa 5780)

9th March 2020

Featured image © Yoram Raanan Download the accompanying Family Edition here! Kol Nidre, the prayer said at the beginning of … Read more

13th January 2020

Download the accompanying Family Edition here! Some measure of the radicalism that is introduced into the world by … Read more

14th January 2019

The splitting of the Reed Sea is engraved in Jewish memory. We recite it daily during the morning service, … Read more

7th January 2019

The ninth plague – darkness – comes shrouded in a darkness of its own. What is this plague doing here? … Read more

31st December 2018

The Israelites were at their lowest ebb. They had been enslaved. A decree had been issued that every male … Read more

12th March 2018

It was never my ambition or aspiration to be a rabbi. I went to university to study economics. I then … Read more

20th February 2017

First in Yitro there were the Aseret Hadibrot, the “ten utterances” or general principles. Now in Mishpatim come the details. … Read more

28th December 2016

It was Joseph’s first real attempt to take his fate into his own hands, and it failed. Or so it … Read more

9th December 2015

Something extraordinary happens between last week’s parsha and this week’s. It is almost as if the pause of a week … Read more