Category: Torah Portions

TIME TO BECOME A DESERT

The Midrash on Bamidbar focuses on the desert as a central theme of Torah and... Read More

LORD OF THE FLIES UNMASKED (PODCAST)

Rabbi Dunner chances upon a story about some teenage boys stranded on an island in... Read More

LORD OF THE FLIES UNMASKED

Earlier this week I stumbled across an absolutely remarkable article in The Guardian: “The real... Read More

MOUNT SINAI AND SHEMITTA, AN UNLIKELY COMBINATION (VIDEO)

Rashi famously quotes a Midrash at the beginning of Parshat Behar — which launches its... Read More

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MOUNT SINAI AND SHEMITTA, AN UNLIKELY COMBINATION

Rashi famously quotes a Midrash at the beginning of Parshat Behar — which launches its... Read More

THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES (PODCAST)

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, but what about the law of unintended... Read More

THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

One of the seventeenth century’s greatest intellectual celebrities was Sir Isaac Newton, a central figure... Read More

THE MESSAGE OF SEFIRAT HA’OMER (VIDEO)

The passage that instructs us to bring the Omer offering and count the Omer is... Read More

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