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Oct 10, 2019
2 min

Haazinu – The Prophetic Vision of Moses

This parashah contains a song of Moses, which follows the Torah’s traditional pattern of poetry by being written in equal couplets (Shulc...

Rabbi Skorka

Oct 3, 2019
2 min

Vayelech – The last two commands

In this parashah the last two precepts appear that, through Moses, God declares to the people of Israel. Both refer to the importance and...

Rabbi Skorka

Sep 26, 2019
2 min

Nitzavim- To covenant with God

This parashah begins by describing how the new generation, the one born in the desert, renewed the covenant with God that Abraham had mad...

Rabbi Skorka

Sep 19, 2019
2 min

Ki Tavo – The Prayer when bringing the first fruits

This parasha begins by presenting the prayer that the Hebrew farmer should say when offering to God the first fruits (bikurim) that were ...

Rabbi Skorka

Sep 12, 2019
2 min

Ki Tezte - The couple and the divorce in Judaism

This parashah is characterized by being entirely composed of general laws and, in particular, family laws. They include legislation about...

Rabbi Skorka

Sep 5, 2019
2 min

Shoftim- Justice and kindness

This parashah begins with the command to establish a judicial and policing power in the society that the Israelites are going to build in...

Rabbi Skorka

Aug 29, 2019
2 min

Reeh - Against demagoguery and totalitarianism

The twentieth century can be described as the time when totalitarianism spread. Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin are just some names on the ...

Rabbi Skorka

Aug 21, 2019
2 min

Ekev – Free will

In this parashah there is a verse (10:12) that, like Deuteronomy 6: 4-9 from last week, expresses fundamental elements of Israel's faith....

Rabbi Skorka

Aug 15, 2019
2 min

Vaetchanan - The Faith of Israel

This parashah presents two passages that define Israel's faith: the Ten Commandments and the first paragraph of Keriat Shema, the prayer ...

Rabbi Skorka

Aug 8, 2019
2 min

Devarim - The fifth of the books in the Torah

The Jewish tradition teaches that the liturgical reading of the fifth of the books of the Torah or Pentateuch, Devarim, should begin on t...

Rabbi Skorka

Aug 1, 2019
2 min

Matot -Masei: The end of the journey through the desert

These two parashot, which are usually read together, both list laws and regulations about the conquest of the land of Canaan and its divi...

Rabbi Skorka

Jul 24, 2019
2 min

Pinchas - The fanatic

At the end of the previous parashah, Balak, the text recounts how Moabite and Midianite priestesses sexually perverted many members of th...

Rabbi Skorka

Jul 16, 2019
2 min

Balak- The misuse of power

Balak, king of Moab, upon learning of the military victories of the children of Israel over the Amorites, decided to hire Balaam to curse...

Rabbi Skorka

Jul 11, 2019
2 min

Chukat - The Error of Moses

The first thirteen verses of chapter 20 of the book of Numbers, which are part of this parashah, describe a small story of that is very d...

Rabbi Skorka

Jul 4, 2019
2 min

Korach - The ambition for power

"The Bible is not man´s theology but God´s anthropology.” This famous phrase of Abraham Joshua Heschel that appears in his book Man Is No...

Rabbi Skorka

Jun 27, 2019
2 min

Shelach Lekha- The failed path to full freedom

This parashah presents the story of the twelve spies whom the people of Israel sent from the desert into Canaan. They were to acquire inf...

Rabbi Skorka

Jun 20, 2019
2 min

Behaalotecha – The Virtue of Humility

From the account in the book of Exodus (2: 11-17) it is clear that Moses had been chosen by God for one of the most important missions in...

Rabbi Skorka

Jun 13, 2019
2 min

Nasso - The priestly blessing

In this parashah appears the formula by which the priests were to beseech God for a blessing on the people of Israel. The priestly blessi...

Rabbi Skorka

Jun 5, 2019
2 min

Bemidbar- The desert and its message

Tradition teaches us that on the Shabbat prior to the festival of Shavuot, we read the first parashah from the fourth book of the Pentate...

Rabbi Skorka

May 30, 2019
2 min

Bechukotai - The suffering of the just

In this parashah the biblical text describes the blessings that will come to the righteous (those who live with goodness and rectitude) a...

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