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Ki Tetze: The Tree, the Curse, and Holiness

August 28, 2015 This Torah portion is a very practical compilation of teachings on most real-life situations: from inheritance rights of the firstborn to how to deal with stubborn, rebellious children; from returning lost objects to their owner to building safety fences around the roof of a home in order to prevent loss of life; from protection of the living to how to treat the body of the deceased.

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Shoftim: The Jewish King

August 21, 2015 In this week’s Torah portion, Moses instructed the nation of Israel in the appointing of judges (called shoftim in Hebrew) and law enforcement officers (called shotrim) to administer justice. These judges and officers would not only teach but also interpret the laws of the Torah. It also discusses the eventual appointment of the Jewish King.

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Re’eh: Choosing the Path of Blessing or of the Curse

August 14, 2015 As the children of Israel stand poised to cross over into the Jordan, God sets before the people two separate and distinct directions: a way of blessing if they choose to obey God’s commandments and a way of cursing if they choose to walk in disobedience to those laws. These two directions, the blessing and the curse, are to be proclaimed on two mountain tops in the Land: Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal.

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Eikev: The Rewards of Faith in Action

August 7, 2015 The title of this week’s Parasha, Eikev, means because. It is used in this Parasha as a conjunction to create a relationship between experiencing God’s blessings and obedience to His Torah. In connection with this, the Haftarah portion this week contains an important prophecy that provides us with added insight into how to walk in the blessings of Adonai—through faith and obedience.

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Va’etchanan: Preparing the Next Generation

July 31, 2015 Included in this week’s Parasha are several of the best known and fundamental passages of Scripture in the entire Tanakh (Old Testament), including the Ten Commandments and the Shema (Listen! or Hear and Do!)—a call in Deuteronomy 6:4–9 to love the one true God with all our being. This passage also exhorts us to pass on our faith to the next generation by faithfully teaching the Torah to our children.

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Devarim: When God Requires Change

July 24, 2015 Change can be difficult. It takes effort to enter into and cope with a new situation. But life is a journey. We are not meant to stand still and stagnate. We are meant to move forward.

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Matot-Masei: Exile and Jewish Settlement in the Holy Land

July 17, 2015 In this week’s double Torah portion (parasha) of Matot-Masei, the Israelites are coming to an end of their 40 years of wandering in the wilderness. As the tribes of Israel prepare to cross over the Jordan River into the Promised Land, the tribes of Reuven, Gad, and half of Menashe, approach Moses requesting permission to settle on the east side of the Jordan in the territories captured from Sichon and Og.

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Pinchas: The Rewards in Honoring God

July 10, 2015 In Parasha Pinchas, we see that Pinchas’ action not only brings salvation to his people by ending the plague, he also obtains a great reward for himself from God. God honors Pinchas with both the priesthood and an eternal covenant of shalom (peace).

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Balak: The Power of God’s Blessing

July 3, 2015 Although Balaam was commissioned to pronounce a curse over Israel, he found he could only issue a blessing, saying, “How shall I curse whom God has not cursed?” Many might come against the nation of Israel, but no one can curse those whom Adonai Himself has blessed!

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Chukat: Miriam and the Bridge from Impurity to Purity

June 20, 2015 The Red Heifer was burned outside the camp and its ashes were used to create the waters of purification. The waters of purification are necessary to ritually cleanse those who had been contaminated by death through contact with a corpse, bone, or grave. Once purified, they could enter the Tabernacle to draw near to the Living God.

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