Radio Sermon – Parashat Vayikra
If you have missed the last “Devotion” by Rabbi Schell at Radio Today, or if you like to hear it again, you may find the Podcast here: The D’var Torah is providing a general introduction to the third book…
Rabbi Adrian Michael Schell
Proudly Jewish - Proudly Progressive
Rabbi Adrian Michael Schell
Proudly Jewish - Proudly Progressive
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Torah Comment – Parashat Vayakehl Pekudei
Rabbi Schell’s Dvar Torah in this week’s Jewish Report:
Radio Sermon – Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei
If you have missed the last “Devotion” by Rabbi Schell at Radio Today, or if you like to hear it again, you may find the Podcast here:…/2015-03-11T02_34_28-07_00 The D’var Torah is focusing on the Jewish Temple, it’s Progressive Jewish conception…
Radio Sermon – Parashat KiTisah
If you have missed the last “Devotion” by Rabbi Schell at Radio Today, or if you like to hear it again, you may find the Podcast here: the sermon focus on the lesson we can derrive from the Golden Calf…
Parashat Mishpatim and Shabbat Shekalim
Torah Comment Parashat Mishpatim Exodus 21:1 – 24:18 (Reading Ex. 23:26–24:18 Plaut p.522; Hertz p.319) Haftarah Shabbat Shekalim 2 Kings 12:5-16 (Plaut p.1451; Hertz p.993) After last weeks Revelation at Sinai, and the giving of the Ten Commandments, after the…
Shabbat Shirah: God a man of war?
Our Torah portion this morning describes that glorious moment in time when the Israelites, just having been emancipated from Egypt, cross the Red Sea in such a miraculous manner that it caused Moses, Mirijam and the people to break out…
Torah Comment – Parashat Bo
In Parashat “Bo”(Go) Moses and Aaron continue to plead with Pharaoh to let the Israelites go free. Because Pharoah refuses, God is is co-erced into raining down the last plagues onto the Egyptians: the plague of locusts, darkness, and finally,…
Parashat Va’era Torah comment
In parashat Va’era („And I appeared“) we learn more about the relationship between God and the Jewish people and about the promise to give the Land of Israel to the people. God tells Moses that the time has come to…
Exodus – Kings and Gods
A few weeks ago, the film Exodus – Kings and Gods was launched and, in anticipation of the upcoming Torah readings about the liberation of the Israelites from slavery, I decided to watch the movie. I wanted to see how…
Parashat Sh’mot
A few weeks ago, the film Exodus – Kings and Gods was launched and, in anticipation of the upcoming Torah readings about the liberation of the Israelites from slavery, I decided to watch the movie. I wanted to see how…