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 ...
EVERYTHING Chaye Sarah-5768 Rabbi David Walk This week's Torah reading informs us that our patriarch, Avraham, was blessed with everything (Genesis 24:1)....
INFALLABLE Toldot-5768 Rabbi David Walk Recently we've been studying the Chassidic Masters at Seudah Shlishit here at Agudath Sholom in Stamford, CT. It's...
FIRST FATHER Vayetze-5768 Rabbi David Walk The way our Sages arranged the weekly Torah readings tends to highlight certain individuals. This parsha begins the...
CLASH Vayishlach-5768 Rabbi David Walk The book of Genesis contains two titanic confrontations. The most famous, I suppose, is the collision in this week's...
CONTROL Vayeshev-5768 Rabbi David Walk The Torah readings from this week until the end of Genesis are usually referred to as the Joseph stories. These...
NATURAL Chanukah-5768 Rabbi David Walk One of my favorite genres of movies is the sports film, especially baseball. I could fill many articles with my...
COMMUNITY Vayigash-5768 Rabbi David Walk This past Shabbat I was in Cleveland, Ohio. This was my first visit to the city on the shores Lake Erie, and I was...
PROMISE Vayechi-5768 Rabbi David Walk This is an unusual Torah reading. It is unique that there is no spacing between last week's parsha and this one, but I...
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Shmot-5768 Rabbi David Walk No one really knows the exact details about the advent of chanting a section of the Prophets, called the...
KNOWLEDGE Va'era-5768 Rabbi David Walk One of the most beautiful sentiments expressed in our liturgy is in a verse recited every morning while putting on...
PUNCTUALITY Bo-5768 Rabbi David Walk A neurotic is someone who is filled with anxiety and is constantly nervous. We Orthodox Jews tend to be neurotic. In...
FRUITY Tu B'shvat-5768 Rabbi David Walk My favorite food category is fruit. This may sound weird to some out there, but I'd rather have a luscious peach than...
JUGGLING ACT Yitro-5768 Rabbi David Walk This past weekend Rabbi Shlomo Riskin visited here in Stamford. It was really wonderful on two levels. First of all...
AND WHAT ARE YOU SERVING? Mishpatim-5768 Rabbi David Walk If an anthropologist were to visit a modern synagogue, I'd be curious to hear the analysis of our...
HOLY STUFF Teruma-5768 Rabbi David Walk One of the most perplexing problems for readers of the Torah appears right in the very first chapter of our Bible....
STEADY Tetzaveh-5768 Rabbi David Walk In life’s endeavors, which trait will ultimately yield the greatest success? Intensity or consistency? I think this...
ON GUARD Vayakeil-5768 Rabbi David Walk The Torah readings these weeks are intensely involved with Temple or worship related issues. Even the narrative...
ENEMY Vayikra-Zachor-5768 Rabbi David Walk It’s occasionally time for a good yiddeshe krechtz! That means a sigh or groan which starts in the kishkes, before...
COMING TOGETHER Purim-5768 Rabbi David Walk Well, here we are again preparing for Purim. Generally our preparations tend to be of a technical nature rather...
THE SEARCH Shmini-5768 Rabbi David Walk The Hebrew term for the scribes who painstakingly copy our Torah scrolls is sofrim. This word is both related to the...
BIRTH Tazria-5768 Rabbi David Walk Every week I have to decide which issue to write about that week. This week I have to choose between the weekly Torah...
NEW START Metzora-5768 Rabbi David Walk What does this week’s parsha have in common with the beginning of Spring? The answer: A lot! We think of the...
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