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...
THE LONG ROAD BACK V'etchanan-5768 Rabbi David Walk There exists a custom to throw away the Kinot (elegies, sad poems) booklets used on Tisha B'av right after...
DANGER Eikev-5768 Rabbi David Walk Recently I've been listening to many people discussing the situation in Israel. Uniformly, they are worried. I find this...
GOOD AND RIGHT Re'eh-5768 Rabbi David Walk There is a very disturbing phenomenon in the world of organized religion (which many people believe excludes...
RULE Shoftim-5768 Rabbi David Walk This week's parsha is the Torah primer in political science. Because of the conventions and the upcoming elections both in...
STORM WARNINGS Ki Tetze-5768 Rabbi David Walk Generally, when we study the weekly Torah reading we try to look for a unifying theme in the material, which our...
RALLY Ki Tavo-5768 Rabbi David Walk What is the power of pageantry in the psyche of the people? I think it looms pretty large. We just saw the major party...
JUSTICE Nitzavim-5768 Rabbi David Walk The first major philosophic work ever written down and, still, maybe the most influential is The Republic by Plato...
FORGIVE Yom Kippur-5769 Rabbi David Walk It’s been well documented that forgiving others bestows a plethora of health benefits. According to a number of...
HAPPY PENITANCE Sukot-5769 Rabbi David Walk Sukot is the happiest time of the year. This delightful status is confirmed in our prayers. While Pesach is...
TO SERVE MAN Breishit-5769 Rabbi David Walk Every year when we return to the first reading in the Torah there is a certain joy, like reuniting with an old...
HUMANS AT REST Noach-5769 Rabbi David Walk Generally speaking, I believe that Noach gets a raw deal. It seems that a tremendous amount of rabbinic energy is...
MERIT BY ASSOCIATION Lech Licha-5769 Rabbi David Walk Every week Rabbeinu Bechaye (R. Bechaye ben Asher, d. 1340) introduces the weekly Torah reading with a...
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