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...
DIFFICULT CHILDREN Ki Tetze-5767 Rabbi David Walk No human enterprise is as fulfilling and frustrating as parenting. From that first encounter when they steal...
AMEN Ki Tavo-5767 Rabbi David Walk The image of a Christian congregation yelling, "Amen!" to the exhortation of the minister has become a bit of a cliché, but...
ON THE HIGHWAY OF LIFE Nitzavim-Vayelech-5767 Rabbi David Walk It's remarkable that it's time for Rosh Hashanah again. The years definitely slip by more...
THE GREATEST GIFT Rosh Hashanah-5768 Rabbi David Walk An interesting article came out this summer in Scientific American. It discussed the atrocities...
PURE Yom Kippur-5768 Rabbi David Walk It has become an important custom in Lithuanian Yeshivot to study Maimonides Laws of Repentance during the Ten Days of...
SUCCESS Sukkot-5768 Rabbi David Walk Every year we rabbi types agonize over the timing of the holiday of Sukkot. Each of our three pilgrimage festivals has a...
EVIL TENDENCIES Noach-5768 Rabbi David Walk In general, I believe that most people are good. Nastiness and evil I have always felt are aberrations. People...
SMART Lech Licha-5768 Rabbi David Walk The debate over the relative merits of Avraham versus Noach rages every year around this time because we reread the...
TOGETHER Vayera-5768 Rabbi David Walk From the wonderful, generous people who brought you Birthright-Taglit free trips to Israel, here comes a new project ...
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