Rabbi David’s Blog
Shabbat Reflection: Parashat Behar
May 24, 2024 / 16 Iyyar 5784 My great great grandfather, Wolf Cohen, was born in Jerusalem in 1870. According to family lore, he left [...]
Shabbat Reflection: Parashat Emor
May 17, 2024 / 9 Iyyar 5784 Let us count the days! We've arrived at the halfway point of Sefirat ha'Omer - the counting of the days [...]
Shabbat Reflection: Parashat Kedoshim
May 10, 2024 / 2 Iyyar 5784 Three words, at the Torah's geographic center, none better known: v'ahavta l're'akha kamokha - וְאָֽהַבְתָּ֥ לְרֵעֲךָ֖ כָּמ֑וֹךָ. Usually translated as "love your [...]
Shabbat Reflection: Parashat Achrei Mot
May 3, 2024 / 25 Nisan 5784 You shall heed my laws and my rules, which if a person practices them shall live by them; I [...]
Shabbat Reflection: Hol Hamoed Pesach
April 26, 2024 / 18 Nisan 5784 The Poetic Arc of Passover The liturgy for Pesah is chock full of poetry - many sections of [...]
Shabbat Reflection: Parashat Metzora
April 19, 2024 / 11 Nisan 5784 On Shabbat haGadol - the 'great Sabbath' which immediately precedes Passover, we encounter Elijah the Prophet - Eliyahu haNavi. In [...]