by sr2018wp | Jun 18, 2015 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
This week our grade six students are graduating from Akiva School. In the future they will take many different roads and face many different challenges. There is excellent advice for our graduates based on the story of the rebellion of Korach from this week’s parsha....
by sr2018wp | Jun 10, 2015 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
The tallit is one of the most familiar symbols of Judaism. The commandment behind the tallit is found at the end of our parsha, in the mitzvah to wear tzizit, string fringes at the edges of any four cornered garment. Tzitzit is so fundamental to Judaism, that the...
by sr2018wp | Jun 4, 2015 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
“But when the assembly is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.” This week’s parsha in the book of Bamidbar, contains the first reference to the different sounds of the shofar that we are commanded to hear on Rosh Hashana. God asks...
by sr2018wp | May 28, 2015 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
I wanted to share an article with you this week written by the families of the three boys (Eyal, Gilad and Naftali) whose lives were brutally taken last summer before the operation in Gaza. The message of unity is crucial and it is an appropriate message that follows...
by sr2018wp | May 21, 2015 | Blog, My Jewish Journey
The megilla of Ruth is a beautiful story of a Moabite woman who “cleaves” to her mother in law Naomi, and is in turn rewarded for her acts of extreme chessed by meriting to be the ancestor of King David. The book is a succinct story (4 chapters) with multiple layers...
