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May 5, 20235 min read

Hypocrites

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen We Jews have always been outliers. Now it seems everyone else wants to catch up with us and claim victimhood,...

May 4, 20233 min read

Shabbat Emor

Leviticus 21-25 - Mourning by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen The Torah contains no specific rules about death and mourning for ordinary people. It...

Apr 28, 20237 min read

Israel at 75

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen I have recently read two great books. "Israel’s Declaration of Independence: The History and Political Theory of...

Apr 27, 20233 min read

Shabbat Acharei Mot & Kedoshim

Leviticus 16-21 - Morality by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen For many of us reading the third Book of the Torah, Leviticus (Vayikra), is not a...

Apr 21, 20237 min read

Memorials to the Holocaust

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen This week we witnessed another impressive Holocaust Memorial Day in Israel when the country came to halt to...

Apr 20, 20234 min read

Shabbat Tazria & Metzorah

Leviticus 12-15:33 - Shabbat Rosh Chodesh Iyar HEALTHY IN BODY AND MIND by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen The chapters of the Torah that we are...

Mar 31, 20234 min read

Firstborn

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen I am a First Born. And I fast on the eve of Pesach because all the Egyptian firstborns were struck down by the...

Mar 30, 20234 min read

Shabbat Tsav and Shabbat HaGadol

The Big One by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen The Shabbat before Pesach is always called Shabbat HaGadol. The Great or Major Shabbat. Although the...

Mar 24, 20235 min read

Passover or Passout?

by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Moses had trouble understanding Rebbi Akivah who lived about a thousand years later (according to the Talmud). How...

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