Rabbinical School Divrei Torah

Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld Speaking Torah: “You may not turn your back and say amen”

Note: This message was originally distributed on March. 8th, 2017 to the Hebrew ...

Rabbinical School Divrei Torah Celebrating Women’s Mark on the Textual Tradition from Esther to Today’s Teachers of Jewish Text

The holiday of Purim, whose observance centers around the public chanting of the...

Exodus Speaking Torah: “And these are the laws”

Last week’s Torah reading, Parashat Yitro, brought us back to the mysterious e...

Exodus Speaking Torah: “God has placed in my mouth a new song”

This coming Shabbat, two moments converge on our sacred calendar – the holiday...

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Rabbinical School Divrei Torah Tu Bi-Shvat: Nurturing the Tree of Life

To judge by our classical sources, Tu bi-Shvat barely counts as even a minor hol...

Hanukkah Chanukah Means Accepting All that is Offered

“I dwell in possibility,” Emily Dickinson once wrote. On Chanukah, the festi...