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Rabbi Daniel Levitt's Torah blog: Parshat Pinchas
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Rabbi Daniel Levitt's Torah blog. Thoughts on the Parsha. Friday, June 28, 2013. Pinchas: Loving God, too much of a good thing? I can remember clearly, one Friday afternoon a few years ago, as I was in the sanctuary of the synagogue practicing my sermon for the upcoming shabbos, a man walked in looking for the rabbi. It’s not so uncommon for people from all different backgrounds and faiths to walk into Sherith Israel looking for help. In Judaism, nothing is black and white. The man in last week’s P...
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Rabbi Daniel Levitt's Torah blog: March 2012
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Rabbi Daniel Levitt's Torah blog. Thoughts on the Parsha. Friday, March 30, 2012. Weekly Parsha - Tzav. Weekly Parsha - Vayikra. The necessity of developing memories which connect us to God is something I see reflected in this week’s Parsha. This week, we begin reading from the book of ויקרא, Leviticus. The parsha consists mostly of a list of all the different types of sacrifices which were to be brought in the tabernacle, and later in the temple in Jerusalem. Furthermore, the introduction of sacrifices ...
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Rabbi Daniel Levitt's Torah blog: April 2012
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Rabbi Daniel Levitt's Torah blog. Thoughts on the Parsha. Friday, April 27, 2012. Weekly Torah Portion: Tazria-Metzorah. In this week’s Parsha, Parshat Tazria/Metzorah, we are taught about tzara’at,. A spiritual sickness which had physical symptoms. If a person would get a certain type of blemish, they would be taken to the priest for a diagnosis. The verse (13:2) makes a point of saying that they were taken, and the Ibn Ezra. Friday, April 20, 2012. Weekly Torah Portion: Shemini. Sometimes when we are g...
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Rabbi Daniel Levitt's Torah blog: December 2011
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Rabbi Daniel Levitt's Torah blog. Thoughts on the Parsha. Friday, December 30, 2011. This is a complex situation; there is no easy resolution in sight. Just as a point of information, the Israeli Supreme Court has ruled that these buses are lawful so long as everyone on the bus is ok with the separation. I want to read to you what one of the women wrote to me, and draw a lesson from what she writes to the Parsha this week. My father always says that the quickest way to get someone to dislike you is by ma...
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Rabbi Daniel Levitt's Torah blog: November 2011
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Rabbi Daniel Levitt's Torah blog. Thoughts on the Parsha. Monday, November 14, 2011. Who was Avraham Avinu, what did he stand for and what should we learn from him? We are first introduced to him in last week’s Parsha later in his life, when God first speaks to him and tells him to move to the place that he will give to him and his family, and he will be blessed and made into a great nation. But who was he before this? One day an elderly man came into the idol shop to buy an idol. Nimrod who believed him...
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Rabbi Daniel Levitt's Torah blog: Parshat Lech Lecha
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Rabbi Daniel Levitt's Torah blog. Thoughts on the Parsha. Friday, October 26, 2012. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Sponsor a Dvar Torah. Follow me on twitter. A Message from the Rosh HaYeshiva. Musings of Rabbi Hausman. Parshat Ki Tissa/My Brother's aufruf. This week’s Parsha contains in it the terrible tragedy of the sin of the golden calf, and the subsequent destruction of the tablets by Moses. Rosh Hashanah Torah and Haftorah thoughts. Parshat Ki Tissa/My Brother's aufruf.
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Rabbi Daniel Levitt's Torah blog: June 2013
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Rabbi Daniel Levitt's Torah blog. Thoughts on the Parsha. Friday, June 28, 2013. Pinchas: Loving God, too much of a good thing? I can remember clearly, one Friday afternoon a few years ago, as I was in the sanctuary of the synagogue practicing my sermon for the upcoming shabbos, a man walked in looking for the rabbi. It’s not so uncommon for people from all different backgrounds and faiths to walk into Sherith Israel looking for help. In Judaism, nothing is black and white. The man in last week’s P...
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Rabbi Daniel Levitt's Torah blog: May 2012
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Rabbi Daniel Levitt's Torah blog. Thoughts on the Parsha. Friday, May 18, 2012. This week’s Parsha, the double portion Behar-Bechukotai, begins with the laws of Shemitah. “…the land shall observe a Sabbath of the lord. Six years you may sow your field and six years you may prune your vineyard and gather in the yield. But in the seventh year the land shall have a Sabbath of complete rest. (Leviticus 25:2-4). Friday, May 4, 2012. Parshat Acharei Mot - Kedoshim. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This week’s...
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Rabbi Daniel Levitt's Torah blog: October 2012
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Rabbi Daniel Levitt's Torah blog. Thoughts on the Parsha. Friday, October 26, 2012. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Sponsor a Dvar Torah. Follow me on twitter. A Message from the Rosh HaYeshiva. Musings of Rabbi Hausman. Parshat Ki Tissa/My Brother's aufruf. This week’s Parsha contains in it the terrible tragedy of the sin of the golden calf, and the subsequent destruction of the tablets by Moses. Rosh Hashanah Torah and Haftorah thoughts. Parshat Ki Tissa/My Brother's aufruf. This ...
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Rabbi Daniel Levitt's Torah blog: February 2012
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Rabbi Daniel Levitt's Torah blog. Thoughts on the Parsha. Friday, February 24, 2012. In the second verse of this week’s Parsha it says, “You shall accept gifts for me from every person whose heart so moves him. (Ex. 25:2)” The Hebrew word for gift in this context, and the name of the Parsha, is Terumah. This word is linguistically similar to the Hebrew word, Romem – to elevate. Friday, February 17, 2012. At the end of this week’s parsha there is a very famous and important passage. It says. After hearing...