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Parashat Ki Tissa By Suri Krieger Moses had a double! That's right. Moses was not the only prophet to part the waters, or to experience a Revelation on Mt. Sinai, or to have a highly unusual end-of life occurrence. Granted, our first and foremost prophet earned his reputation with miracles and fireworks. But so did Read More >

Society’s Golden Calves A D'var Torah for Ki Tissa by Rabbi Irwin Huberman, '10 While attending a conference last year on future trends in Judaism, one of the presenters – a rabbi – told the story of how he had aroused the fury of one of his congregants. One evening, as he taught a class Read More >

  A D'var Torah for Parashat Ki Tavo By Rabbi Heidi Hoover ('11) In the megahit musical Hamilton, there is a song with the repeated line, “Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrMkdZtqiVI). The way that we know who we are and where we come from is through stories. Sometimes we call them Read More >

Click HERE for an audio recording of this D'var Torah A D'var Torah for Parashat Ki Tissa By Rabbi Doug Alpert ('12) Whether it be in a D’var Torah or in a Derash, two obvious sources of material I have assiduously avoided have been politics and what I have viewed as the thematically obvious. I have Read More >

Click HERE for an audio recording of this D'var Torah A D'var Torah for Parashat Ki Tavo By Rabbi Ariann Weitzman ('11)Many of us spend an incredible amount of time figuring out how to make someone else listen, whether it’s to our instructions, our needs, our anxieties, or just our day-to-day thoughts and feelings. Listening Read More >

Click HERE   for an audio recording of this D'var Torah The Golden Calf: Not a Tantrum, but a Meltdown A D’var Torah for Parashat Ki Tissa and Shabbat Parah By Rabbi Katy Allen ('05) Perhaps the golden calf was inevitable, and perhaps even necessary. Egel ha’masekhah, the molten calf (Ex. 32:4), the meltdown– the internal or external loss Read More >

By Rabbi Marc Rudolph And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. ~William Shakespeare In this week's parashah, Ki Tissa, the Israelites, under the guidance of Aaron, build a golden calf. When confronted by Moses as to how he could allow the people to engage in such behavior, Read More >

by Cantor Sandy Horowitz "And the people bowed and prayed, to the neon god they made..." (from The Sounds of Silence by Paul Simon) In Parashat Ki Tissa, we read about the golden calf, that surrogate object of worship which the Israelites create as they give up on waiting for Moses, who has yet to Read More >

By Rabbi Jaron Matlow   Lately I have been focusing on Theodicy, the problem of evil in the world. Over the last several years, I have experienced a number of health issues that left me on total disability. In Parashat Ekev, we are told that if we follow God s Torah, God  œwill remove all sickness Read More >

Texts that Call for Faith By Rabbi Judith Edelstein This year, as in many, these two Torah portions are combined into one reading in order to accommodate the idiosyncrasies of the lunar calendar. Behar iterates the laws of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, to occur every seventh and fiftieth year respectively. At these times the Read More >