Rabbi’s Blog

B’chukotai – Walk with me, because I’m with you anyway
May 27, 2022
Dear Chaverim, Parshat B’chukotai opens with the familiar theme of reward and punishment for our observance or non-observance of God’s […]

Lag Ba’Omer 5782
May 20, 2022
Shalom Friends, This week we celebrated Lag Ba’Omer. In many ways, it is a minor holiday, important enough that we […]

Parshat Emor and Pesach Sheni
May 13, 2022
Dear Chaverim, Please enjoy this video Devar Torah from Rabbi Schachter on this week’s Parsha. Shabbat Shalom

Kedoshim – It’s not enough to do Holy, you need to BE Holy
May 6, 2022
Dear Chaverim, Last Shabbat I shared with you a remarkable passage from the Zohar which suggests a surprising equivalency between […]

Think “We”
April 28, 2022
Dear Chaverim, Canadian author and political correspondent Martin Lawrence comments on today’s language wars around “woke” -ism (Globe and Mail, […]

Eruv Tavshilin
April 21, 2022
Dear Chaverim, Cooking and food preparation is permissible on Yom Tov unlike on Shabbat. However; preparing for the second day […]