The Secret to Jewish Continuity Rabbi David Brofsky is a Ra’M at Midreshet Lindenbaum In this week’s parasha, Parshat Va’etchanan, the Torah relates Moshe Rabbeinu’s final words to the Jewish people, before they enter the land of Israel. Moshe instructs the people to follow the commandments of the Torah: “And now, O Israel, give heed …
Shabbat Shalom: Parshat Va’etchanan (Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11) By Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Efrat, Israel – “And we dwelt in the valley, opposite the Temple of Peor” (Deuteronomy 3:29) The contents of the final book of the Pentateuch, Deuteronomy, are almost sandwiched between two curious references to a detestable idol: Ba’al Peor. At the conclusion of the first …
View previous Meet Rabbanit Elisheva Brauner who just completed her first year as a fellow in the Susi Bradfield Women’s Institute of Halakhic Leadership (WIHL). Brauner, who has a degree in Jewish Education from Toronto University and studied in a variety of Torah frameworks now lives in Jerusalem with her husband Asher and her children …
