WINNING Ki Tavo Rabbi David Walk When I was kid we used to play board games, especially when we were bored. We played these diversions with other humans and...
DEMOCRACY Nitzavim-5766 Rabbi David Walk Here it is, my last article of 5766. Next week my byline up there will say 5767. What did I learn in 5766 that will...
COMMUNICATION Rabbi David Walk Rosh Hashanah-5767 Did you ever have someone close to you expect you to do something which you never had a head’s up to take...
MAGIC Rabbi Walk Yom Kippur-5767 Many times I have attacked magic creeping into religion in these articles. I sometimes feel like the Amazing Randi of rabbis....
MADE IN THE SHADE Sukot-5767 Rabbi David Walk Everybody has favorite holidays and favorite mitzvoth. For me it’s definitely Sukot and the sukah. Now,...
Mazal Tov on the engagement of Matthew Mintz HOME TEAM Shmini Atzeret-5767 Rabbi David Walk Tommy Lasorda, the baseball icon and former Los Angeles Dodger’s...
LOVE & MARRIAGE B’reishit-5767 Rabbi David Walk From Romeo and Juliet to Tony and Maria to Homer and Marge the world loves lovers, especially if they’re...
EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED Noach-5767 Rabbi Walk Did you ever hear a story that just cried out to be called inevitable or in Yiddish: Bashirt? I had a teacher in...
STRANGE FAVORS Lech Licha-5767 Rabbi David Walk In Tennessee William’s great drama A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche Dubois famously said, “I have always...
ANGELIC Vayera-5767 Rabbi David Walk A problem has developed recently in my davening. I've started thinking about what I'm saying. On one level this is a...
ATTENTION GRABBER Chaye Sarah-5767 Rabbi David Walk There’s a really fascinating Midrash (Brieshit Raba 58:3) on this week’s Torah reading. The Midrash...
OFFSPRING Toldot-5767 Rabbi David Walk If one had to delineate the major periods of child development, I believe that we could break them down into the two...
MOTHERS Vayetze-5767 Rabbi David Walk Back when I was in high school, what my kids refer to as the dark ages, we had a dress code which didn't allow boys to...
FEAR FACTOR Vayishlach-5767 Rabbi David Walk Built into our collective psyches are certain basic fears. These are protection from our greatest threats and we...
FLAME Chanukah-5767 Rabbi David Walk Long before the youth organization, Camp Fire USA, went coed, and was then known as Camp Fire Girls, I was already a...
DREY AROUND Chanukah II-5767 Rabbi David Walk The spread of the phenomenon of gambling on the internet and on Television has enticed an entire new generation...
FAMILY AFFAIR Vayigash-5767 Rabbi David Walk When you read the book of Genesis, you’re struck by the progressive normalization of the stories. The book...
12 SEMI-ANGRY MEN Vayechi-57657 Rabbi David Walk When I was in the sixth grade we learned about different number systems. The truth is that I never quite got...
DRAMATIS PERSONAE Shmot-5767 Rabbi David Walk There are many examples of world literature in which surprising entities are major characters. One of my...
LISTEN, DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET V'era-5767 Rabbi David Walk As a teacher, rabbi, and to a lesser degree as a parent, an interesting phenomenon occurs when...
CULTURAL GIFTS Bo-5767 Rabbi David Walk When I first heard about Stamford’s Bi-Cultural Day School, about 30 years ago, I remember being concerned about the...
THIS AND THUS B'shalach-5767 Rabbi David Walk Remember the opening music from the movie 2001 Space Odyssey? It had those impressive crashing sounds of...
SAYING AND SPEAKING Yitro-5767 Rabbi David Walk In mystical and Chasidic literature, humans are described as the creations who talk. Talking is viewed as the...
OWNERSHIP Mishpatim-5767 Rabbi David Walk Did you ever see those commercials for cars which seem to claim that if you buy their car you'll be surrounded by...
FACE TO FACE Teruma-5767 Rabbi David Walk A couple of weeks ago the New York Times ( Don’t worry, I no longer subscribe, but I still do read it for free.)...
DANGER, DANGER Purim-5767 Rabbi David Walk God bless America. I really love the United States. Throughout the long history of the Jewish people very few...
Q & A Ki Tisa-5767 Rabbi David Walk May I ask you a question? As a teacher, Rabbi and parent I get asked that query very often. I tend to answer this by...
HEAR YE, HEAR YE Vayakhel-5767 Rabbi David Walk There are very few places in the Torah when everyone in the Jewish community is required to show up for...
MEMORIES Pesach I-5767 Rabbi David Walk There was a well known Rosh Yeshiva in Yerushalayim who made an interesting comment on his seventieth birthday. He...
THE FIFTH Pesach II-5767 Rabbi David Walk There are only two practices in Jewish tradition, which would require an impoverished individual to go door to door...
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