Religious Leaders and Interreligious Dialogue: Framing the Conversation
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Stockholm Meeting on Interreligious and Cultural Dialogue: “Walk Together” Civilizations prosper only when people are able to overcome...
Rabbi Skorka
- Oct 17, 2019
- 2 min
Simchat Torah – In celebration of Jewish identity
In Leviticus 26:44, after describing the hardships that the people would suffer while fulfilling the precepts that God had given them,...
Rabbi Skorka
- Oct 10, 2019
- 2 min
Sukkot – The celebration of faith
The faith of the people on the occasion of their departure from Egypt, the foundational event of Israel, has two aspects. On the one...
Rabbi Skorka
- 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...
Rabbi Skorka
- Oct 3, 2019
- 2 min
Yom Kippur - A day fully dedicated to the spirit
On the one hand, the Torah refers to Yom Kippur as a day of self-denial (Leviticus 16:29,31; 23:27,32; Numbers 29:7), and, on the other...
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
Rosh Hashanah – Judgment and Re-creation
There are two essential concepts at the heart of the holyday of Rosh Hashana: Judgment and Re-creation. At the beginning of each new...
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...
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
9th of Av - Destruction and recovery
According to Jewish tradition, the destruction of the first temple in Jerusalem, like the second, occurred on the same day, the ninth of...
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...
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...
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...
Rabbi Skorka
- Jul 16, 2019
- 2 min
Amia - 25 Years of Waiting
“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.” - Proverbs 13:12 The Nuremberg trials after the Second...
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...
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