Category: Torah Portions
WAS NOAH REALLY RIGHTEOUS?
The portion of Noah begins by declaring that the hero of the Great Flood, Noah,... Read More
TRY AND TRY AGAIN (PODCAST)
Rabbi Dunner uses an obscure and regularly misattributed nineteenth-century poem to help illustrate a fascinating... Read More
TRY AND TRY AGAIN
The name Thomas Haig Palmer will mean nothing to you unless you are a keen... Read More
IT NEEDS TO COME FROM WITHIN
The final portion of the Torah, Vezot Habracha, is the only one in the whole... Read More
THE IMPORTANCE OF PERSONAL PAIN
The late Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach was a wonderful raconteur, who would regale audiences around the... Read More
THE VALUE OF ONE AND ALL
In Rambam’s Hilchot Teshuva, he enumerates 24 types of people for whom the Teshuva process... Read More
IT’S ALL OR NOTHING
You have no doubt heard of the psychiatric condition known as multiple personality disorder. In... Read More
THE HIDDEN AND THE REVEALED
The opening of Nitzavim ends with a declaration that "the hidden" is in God’s purview,... Read More