Tag: Torah sparks by Rabbi Schell
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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: http://goo.gl/3mXyi1The D’var Torah is providing a general introduction to the third book of the Torah “Vayikra”.
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Torah Comment – Parashat Vayakehl Pekudei
Rabbi Schell’s Dvar Torah in this week’s Jewish Report: http://www.sajr.co.za/docs/default-source/pdf/13-march-2015.pdf
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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:http://betdavid.podomatic.com/ent…/2015-03-11T02_34_28-07_00The D’var Torah is focusing on the Jewish Temple, it’s Progressive Jewish conception and why Jerusalem has an important role for all Jews.
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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: http://betdavid.podomatic.com/entry/2015-03-05T23_55_41-08_00the sermon focus on the lesson we can derrive from the Golden Calf story in the Torah.
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Parashat Mishpatim and Shabbat Shekalim
Torah Comment Parashat MishpatimExodus 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 thunder and lightning and the mountain covered in a cloud of smoke—what could possibly come next? Indeed what…
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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, the death of their firstborn. At midnight on the night of the last plague, Moses…
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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 free the Israelites from Egyptian bondage. As Moses feels that he is not the right…
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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 the authors of the film interpreted the biblical narrative. I was disappointed in the film…
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Vayechi
Year 3 Genesis 49:27-50:26 (Plaut p 313; Hertz p 187)Haftarah I Kings 2:1-12 (Plaut p 323; Hertyz p 191)Jacob’s final blessing to his children and grandchildren precedes demand that he be buried in the ancestral grave in Hebron at the Machpelah. There it is his desire to be laid to rest alongside his wife Leah,…
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Vayiggash
Year 3 Genesis 46:28-47:27 (Plaut p 293; Hertz p 174) Haftarah Ezekiel 37:15-28 (Plaut p 302; Hertz p 178)The great re-union of Joseph and his aged father Jacob/Israel lead to a welcome for all of Bet Yisraeil—the House of Jacob/Israel—as part of the empire of Pharaoh. The first meeting of patriarch and King leads to…
