by RabbiOlivier | Nov 10, 2017 | Torah Reflections
Chayei Sarah Genesis 23:1 – 25:18 When Isaac Met Rebekah This week’s Torah portion opens with Abraham setting out to find a wife for his son Isaac. To do so, he sends his most faithful servant back to the city of Nachor, his hometown, to find him a spouse from...
by RabbiOlivier | Nov 10, 2015 | Torah Reflections
Chayei Sarah Genesis 23:1 – 25:18 When Isaac Met Rebekah This week’s Torah portion opens with Sarah’s death. After Abraham mourns her, he sets out to accomplish his last fatherly duty before he, too, makes his transition: finding a wife for his son Isaac....
by RabbiOlivier | Oct 25, 2013 | Adult Learning, Torah Reflections
Chayei Sarah Genesis 23:1 – 25:18 Where Life Hangs by a Thread The cry of the shofar is the tears of Sarah, says a midrash. This midrash comes to fill-in the blank space between the end of last week’s Torah portion and the...
by RabbiOlivier | Nov 14, 2011 | Adult Learning, Press, Torah Reflections
Parashah (portion) Chayei Sarah – The Legacy of Isaac and Ishmael Genesis 23:1 – 25:18 Foreword: Since I will be in Israel for the next couple of weeks and won’t be able to write my weekly Torah Reflections, I thought you would have enough time to...
by RabbiOlivier | Aug 6, 2011 | Adult Learning, Torah Reflections
Parashah (portion) Chayei Sarah -Seeing Through the Veil of the Mind Genesis 23:1 – 25:18 This week brings us to the second value our community selected to practice more deeply this year, the second midah, on our list of twelve: the value of silence. This week...