Rabbi’s Blog

Dear Friends, In 1957, Carl Rogers introduced the world to the concept of “active listening.” Active listening shifts the focus on listening to the speaker and responding so that the […]

Dear Friends, Often on zoom, I get comments about the number of books that line my dining room shelves they see in the background of my screen. It piqued my […]

Dear Friends, In Israel, even the most simplistic and mundane things are sure to be a unique experience. For example, for most of us living outside of Israel, when posing […]

Dear Friends, This week’s parsha has one of the largest number of commandments that appears in any one section of the Torah. One question that has challenged Judaism throughout the […]

Dear Friends, In the haftarah for Parshat Metzora (which we won’t be reading this year due to Shabbat Hagadol), we usually read the fascinating story of the four metzora’im (lepers) who […]

Dear Friends, This week’s Parsha deals primarily with Tzara’at, a spiritual ailment in the form of leprosy, a physical blemish found on the body, clothing, or the house’s walls, diagnosed […]