The Kehilla of Our Dreams, Yizkor 1999

Two Kohanim were once racing toward the mizbeach. Each one wanted to do the service. Each one wanted the Mitzvah. One Kohein reached the Mizbeach seconds before the other. The loser took his ritual knife and stabbed the other Kohein in the heart. Everyone present...
A Prophecy for All Times

A Prophecy for All Times

The very first Rashi in the Torah makes the following comment. “Really, the Torah should have began with Hachodesh Hazeh Lochem (the Mitzvah of Rosh Chodesh) but a time will come when the nations of the world will call us burglars for taking the land of Israel....

What Went Wrong at Sinai?

In today’s parsha we read the details of the construction of the “mishkan”, the portable Temple (Tabernacle). Of course, every part of the Tabernacle has its special symbolism and its special significance, to which we cannot even begin to do justice...