transformation

26:15

Terumah

The Effects of Giving

Why is this name of this portion "Terumah" (lit. "donation") when the main point of the portion is what the donations were used for—namely the …

18:13

Matos

The Power of Positive Words

This week's reading tells us how the tribe of Reuven conquered land from the Emorites and renamed their cities. What is the connection between Reuven …

17:44

Masei

The Journey of Your Life

The Baal Shem Tov taught that each and every one of us will go through forty-two stages in our lives corresponding to the forty-two travels …

52:21

chapter 51-53

Be the Light

Returning to the metaphor of the wick, the oil, and the flame (ch. 35) we explain how it is that we reveal G-d's Presence in …

26:45

Sukkos

Pants on Fire

Massive oil-burning street lamps lit up the whole city of Jerusalem at night during the water-drawing celebration. But why were the wicks of these lamps …

38:13

3 Weeks/Tisha B’Av

To Transform the Breaking of the Wall

The Babylonian Talmud says that the walls of Jerusalem were broken by the Babylonians on 9 Tammuz while the Jerusalem Talmud says it happened on …