Akiva Calendar
Rabbi Grossman’s Corner
Parshat Chukat – It’s officially summer!
Please enjoy this beautiful dvar Torah from Camp Ramah in New England!! Parshat Hukkat begins with a profoundly strange ritual to moderns. We must sprinkle the ashes of a brown ("red") cow on a person who has been contaminated by contact with a dead body. Of course...
Parshat Korach – Seeking Guidance along the Path of Life
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....
Parshat Shelach – “Strings Attached”
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...
Parshat Behaalotcha – The Dual Sounds of the Shofar
“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...