by RabbiOlivier | Jan 31, 2014 | Adult Learning, Torah Reflections
T’rumah Exodus 25:1 – 27:19 Temples Within Temples Within Temples We find, in this week’s Parashah the Divine injunction that adorns Bet Alef’s new ark: “V’asu Li Mik’dash,...
by RabbiOlivier | Jan 24, 2014 | Adult Learning, Torah Reflections
Mishpatim Exodus 21:1 – 24:18 The Angel Within Can you imagine what it must have been like the day after? Just yesterday we were at the foot of Mount Sinai receiving the Ten Commandments. It was big. It was thunderous. Our...
by RabbiOlivier | Jan 17, 2014 | Adult Learning, Torah Reflections
Yitro Exodus 18:1 – 20:23 One With The One Now Moses went up to God. The Eternal One called to him from the mountain, saying, “Thus shall you say to the house of Jacob and declare to the children of Israel: ‘You...
by RabbiOlivier | Dec 27, 2013 | Adult Learning, Torah Reflections
VaEira Exodus 6:2 – 9:35 Know Thyself to be Enslaved Every year, as I meet the text narrating the plagues of Egypt, I am confronted with the same paradox. God commends Moses to ask Pharaoh to free the Hebrews. Pharaoh refuses. God brings down a plague. Pharaoh...
by RabbiOlivier | Jun 7, 2013 | Adult Learning, Torah Reflections
Korach Numbers 16:1 – 18:32 When Korach Takes Over We left the Israelites at the edge of the Promised Land last week. Twelve tribal leaders, who had gone to scope out the Land, had come back. Ten against two, they advised against entering into...