Copyright Neal Joseph Loevinger 2008 "It came to pass in the first month, in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the Mishkan was set up. Moshe...
Good afternoon! If I told you that this week's Torah commentary was going to include all the salty details, you might think the the topic was yet another New...
Copyright Neal Joseph Loevinger 2008 Dear Friends: Today is Purim, but for the first time in years, I'm not going to write Purim Torah for the occasion. (Of...
Copyright Neal Joseph Loevinger 2008 Happy post-Purim springtime to one and all! This week's Torah portion is Shemini, which has rules for the ancient priests...
Shalom One and All! We're on vacation this week but I do point your attention towards a very interesting commentary on the mitzvah of brit milah (circumcision)...
Copyright Neal Joseph Loevinger 2007 Good afternoon! We're back in the saddle at rabbineal-list and just in time, too, because this week's Torah portion can be...
Copyright Neal Joseph Loevinger 2007 Dear Friends: I hope all who are reading this are enjoying the springtime and - for those who are observing Pesach...
Copyright Neal Joseph Loevinger 2008 Happy mid-Pesach greetings! I hope those who attended Passover seders had meaningful and joyous times with friends and...
Copyright Neal Joseph Loevinger 2008 Hello from rainy Poughkeepsie! Sorry this is late- we've been under other deadlines here at rabbineal-list and it's been a...
Copyright Neal Joseph Loevinger 2008 Happy Birthday Israel! This week we're reading the Torah portion Emor, which has lots of rules for the priests, but also...
Copyright Neal Joseph Loevinger 2008 Greetings from soggy Poughkeepsie! This week we're reading the Torah portion Behar, which deals with land, servants and...
Greetings from sunny-then-cloudy-then-sunny-then-cloudy Poughkeepsie! We're reading the Torah portion Behukotai, which is not the easiest nor most fun part of...
Copyright Neal Joseph Loevinger 2008 Shalom from the sunny and beautiful Hudson Valley, where there is abundant woodland and wilderness- a perfect setting to...
Shalom one and all! We didn't get a commentary out this week but you can find a good article on mitzvah of confession, which is an "active" mitzvah from this...
Copyright Neal Joseph Loevinger 2008 Shalom friends! Sorry about last week; rabbineal-list had a crash in its operating system, you might say (and we're not...
Good morning everybody! This week's Torah portion is Shlach, meaning "send", which tips us off that the big story of the portion is the spies who were sent up...
Copyright Neal Joseph Loevinger 2008 Shalom everybody, we're reading the Torah portion Korach this week- which is always an interesting portion to read in an...
Copyright Neal Joseph Loevinger 2008 Happy Canada Day, 4th of July, Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, and anything else anybody is celebrating! In addition to all those...
Hi all, we're on vacation and not in the library this week so I want to wish you a wonderful Shabbat and some good Torah learning from some of my favorite...
Greetings to one and all! This week we're reading the Torah portion Pinchas, which has in its latter section may commandments related to the Jewish calendar....
Shalom from the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where I've been doing a fabulous rabbinic study fellowship at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (the...
Copyright Neal Joseph Loevinger 2008 Hello one and all! We're back in Poughkeepsie this week after some time away. Sorry things are going out late but better...
Copyright Neal Joseph Loevinger 2008 Dear Friends: So much going on the the world! The Olympics, the U.S. elections, the Israeli leadership transitions. . ....
Copyright Neal Joseph Loevinger 2008 Dear Friends: It's a beautiful summer day and I have good news for you: by the very act of reading this email you are...
Copyright Neal Joseph Loevinger 2008 Dear Friends: This week we're reading the Torah portion Ekev, which is a long peroration from Moshe on how the Israelites...
Copyright Neal Joseph Loevinger 2008 Dear Friends: We're blessed in the Hudson Valley with wonderful seasonal farmer's markets, and perhaps that's why twice...
Copyright Neal Joseph Loevinger 2008 Good afternoon! Just a few hours ago, I was going into this week's Torah portion- Shoftim- with a plan. I was all set to...
Greetings! We're back after an unexpected interruption here at rabbineal-list. Sorry about that and next year for the portion Ki Tetze (last week's) I'll put...
Dear Friends: Shalom from the Hudson Valley! Sorry about getting this out so late- it's that time of the year when there are a few things which call for my...
Dear Friends: Today is a momentous day in the history of Rabbineal-list, for two reasons. First, all year we've been reflecting on the mitzvot, the ...
