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...
INITIATIVE Shmini-5767 Rabbi David Walk Reb Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994), the last Lubavitcher Rebbe, explained that the eighth and last day of...
GENDER Tazria-Metzora-5767 Rabbi David Walk Every year when we get to certain Torah readings I say to myself, “Self, what can one possibly write about this...
YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION Achrei-Kedoshim-5756 Rabbi David Walk A few weeks ago (Parshat V’yakhel), I mentioned that it is relatively rare that we have...
REDUNDENCY Emor-5767 Rabbi David Walk If I told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times. Well, that’s a common enough statement amongst us parents. In...
SERVITUDE Behar-B'chukotei-5767 Rabbi David Walk In the Marx Brothers’ first comedy movie, The Cocoanuts (1929), Groucho is running an already rundown hotel...
YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE B’ha’aloticha-5767 Rabbi David Walk It’s been said that there are two things that people can stare at interminably, one’s image in...
PERSPECTIVE Shlach-5767 Rabbi David Walk Recently there was this article by Dick Cavett (Remember him?) in the New York Times about the comedic mind. His...
FOR ARGUMENT’S SAKE Korach-5767 Rabbi David Walk There’s a famous Monty Python routine called the Argument Clinic, in which a man goes to a office which...
ANGER MISMANAGEMENT Chukat-5767 Rabbi David Walk That great American pundit, Dave Barry, once observed that Benjamin Franklin after his fateful experience with...
HAIL HAIL THE GANG'S ALL HERE Balak-5767 Rabbi David Walk My youngest son likes to respond to the famous sports maxim, "There's no 'I' in team," with his own...
HAIL HAIL THE GANG'S ALL HERE Balak-5767 Rabbi David Walk My youngest son likes to respond to the famous sports maxim, "There's no 'I' in team," with his own...
SECOND BANANA Pinchas-5767 Rabbi David Walk Probably not many of you have heard of Ellsworth (A.K.A. Babe, can you blame him?) Dahlgren. However, most of you...
ROAD RAGE Matot-Masei-5767 Rabbi David Walk Life’s a trip. When we used to say that back in the 60’s it didn’t necessarily mean what this week’s Torah...
GREAT EXPECTATIONS D’varim-5767 Rabbi David Walk One of my favorite Hebrew words is kaveh. It also happens to be the name of my grandson, who is one of the...
TEMPTATION Re'eh-5767 Rabbi Davie Walk It's remarkable how quickly we compromise our principles. It's a common occurrence in history that immediately after a...
WARFARE Shoftim-5767 Rabbi David Walk This week’s Torah reading continues the farewell address of Moshe Rabbeinu preparing the Jews for their entry into the...
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