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METZORA 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyu94BCn22c&feature=youtu.be

The Jewish “condition” must be seen as a fluid continuum of contradiction, and a paradox that defines the beauty of the human condition.

THE TROPE 

Haftarah: II Kings 7:3 – 7:20 – Click here.

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Tazria

THE TROPE 

Haftarah: II Kings 4:42 – 5:19 – Click here.

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Shemini 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWv6r6gWojQ&feature=youtu.be

Our relationship with God, like any relationship, is a dialectic between moments of love and intimacy as well as moments of anger and distance. To maintain the integrity of our relationship with the Divine, it is critical to be able to express the entire gamut of the human condition, to embrace it. We must be able recognize that God will disappoint us, even hurt us, if we are to maintain the integrity of our relationship.

Haftarah: II Samuel 6:1 – 7:17 – Click here.

SHABBAT ZACHOR 2019

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On Amalek

After the Divine Wisdom, the Divine Supervision is revealed. Then, and only then, all is transformed into good. Everything is hallowed, so there is no longer the need to distinguish between good and evil, between “cursed be Haman” and “blessed be Mordechai.”

THE TROPE – for TZAV

Torah: Leviticus 6:1 – 8:36 – Click here.

Haftarah: Jeremiah 7:21 – 8:3; 9:22 – 9:23 – Click here.

VAYIKRA

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Moses Models Humility

Moses models Humility: לֹא קָם בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל כְּמֹשֶה עוֹד, Lo kam b’Yisrael, k’Moshe od. No other human being, before or since, could match the closeness of Moses to the Divine, by virtue alone of his trait of humility.

Torah: Leviticus 1:1 – 5:26 – Click here.
Haftarah: Isaiah 43:21 – 44:23 – Click here.

PEKUDEI

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A Leadership of Empathy

Aaron, the High Priest, carries the burden of responsibility for his charges. He is to “bear the(ir) names … upon his heart … continually.”  He is to care for them:  to inscribe their fears, concerns, scars, hopes, and dreams upon his heart – continually. 

Torah: Exodus 38:21 – 40:38 – Click here.
Haftarah: I Kings 7:51 – 8:21 – Click here.

VAYAKHEL

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Hope and Human Agency

This Shabbat we will read about “The Mirrors,” truly the Torah in its mystical and literary glory. A message of hope and human agency.

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Torah: Exodus 35:1 – 38:20 – Click here.
Haftarah: I Kings 7:40 – 7:50 – Click here.

KI TISA

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Challenging Holiness Assumptions
The story of the Golden Calf  can be understood through the prism of a key theological value of Rabbinic Judaism: that religion itself can become an object of idolatry.

Torah: Exodus 30:11 – 34:35 – Click here.
Haftarah: I Kings 18:1 – 18:39 – Click here.

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Torah: Exodus 27:20 – 30:10 – Click here.
Haftarah: Ezekiel 43:10 – 43:27 – Click here.