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...
A LOVE STORY Pesach-5768 Rabbi David Walk Traditionally the term tragedy implies a story with a sad or unfortunate ending. Unbelievably, the meaning of the...
TIT FOR TAT K’doshim-5768 Rabbi David Walk There was just a report on the radio about disgruntled drivers. It appears that the average American motorist is...
PEDAGOGUE Emor-5768 Rabbi David Walk As an educator, I’ve always been bemused by the idea that degrees conferred by universities in the area of education are...
TRUST Behar-5768 Rabbi David Walk In the Disney movie Aladdin, the critical line that convinces Jasmine, the princess, that Aladdin, the street urchin, is the...
HOPE B’chukotai-5768 Rabbi David Walk Many rabbis conclude sermons, lectures or classes with the formula: May it be God’s will, that Moshiach comes ...
DIRECTION Bamidbar-5768 Rabbi David Walk There is a sense that momentous events are immanent each year when we read Parshat Bamidbar. There are a number of...
ACCEPTANCE Shavuot-5768 Rabbi David Walk Judaism is an unusual religion. We have very little dogma or theology. There is just not much stuff that we are...
EMANATIONS B’ha’aloticha-5768 Rabbi David Walk I get by with a little help from my friends. Sorry about starting my article this week with the word I, but...
IMPRESSIONS Shelach-5768 Rabbi David Walk There has been a lot of research done recently on snap decisions. Most of the findings claim that quick, first...
FOR THE TEAM Korach-5768 Rabbi David Walk For those of you living on a different planet or even worse don’t follow sports, I’d like you to know that all is...
INEXPLICABLE Chukat-5768 Rabbi David Walk Last week there was a fascinating Op Ed piece in the Times called Your Brain Lies to You by Sam Wang and Sandra...
DESTINY Balak-5768 Rabbi David Walk This week's Torah reading seems to be uniquely significant. The Talmud (Babylonian, Berachot 12b and Jerusalem, Berachot...
DAUGHTERS Pinchas-5768 Rabbi David Walk About a year ago I made a decision concerning God in these articles. Our Creator would no longer be referred to with...
PROTECTIVE NAMES Matot-5768 Rabbi David Walk When I was a kid I remember looking at old maps and seeing Leningrad written with St. Petersburg in parentheses...
UNAPPRECIATED Masei-5768 Rabbi David Walk It seems that nobody likes the bearer of bad news. We sometimes actually do kill the messenger (Samuel II 1:15). In...
PRACTICAL LAMENT Tisha B’av-5768 Rabbi David Walk The short book of Lamentations, which is read on Tisha B’av presents the reader with a problem. The five...
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