“Biblical Clickbait” -shamelessly stole this from another group. You won’t be leaving from this post for a while! “BRACE YOURSELVES: Moshe’s most SCANDALOUS move yet…he HIT the ROCK!!” Dermatologists HATE her! Local woman gets leprosy after using this one weird…
Rosh Hashana is coming, and I wanted to talk a little about shoes. OK…a lot about shoes.
A Guest Post By E. Fink The first in a weekly dvar Torah series by Rabbi Eliyahu Fink, Rabbi at Pacific Jewish Center in Venice Beach California. The fourth book in the 5 books of Moses will be read in…
Sofrim in Monsey are scrambling for new clients quickly before the new iPad Torah becomes too popular. The iPad Torah app is predicted to reduce the need for new sifrei torah. We have just learned that Rustybrick, a tech company…
Punk Torah tells us why he thinks tattoos are kosher, of course if we use his reasoning – we might as well just rewrite the torah to fit with “modern” times.
Blogger Israeli Mom made the following comment on the post about the Yeshiva University gay symposium. “The gay issue is one of those things that prove to me just how outdated and irrelevant the torah is as a text to…
Avraham and Sarah are the world’s first punk-rock couple. They smash idols, run away from their town, and marry their own relatives. If they were alive today, they’d have their own reality TV show. But the good kind, where you…
The story of Cain and Abel spans only about four psukim in Bereishis, but something tells me that there must have been more to the world’s first murder. Here is some of the subtext as it might have occurred in my family.
Another guest post by my man Schwartzie – this is hilarious! Aveiros that you, I, and nobody would have committed in the times of the Torah. Aveira that you would have committed: Stay behind in Mitzrayim and get smitten in…
Below is footage taken from the peaceful Charedi protest of the Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem on that same day. I said tehillim, met some friends and when there was no rioting we left and went to the actual parade…
My first taste of Gemara was in the 5th grade at Manhattan Day School in Rabbi Gellers class, I don’t remember what we learnt, but from that moment forward I detested Gemara. The issue was plain and simple, I have…
I immediately felt welcome at the shiur I went to tonight, and it just may have to do with all the bitul torah that was going on. I was munching on some freshly grilled burgers and chicken wings when it…
Life reality – Vayechi It is ironical that the words “life” and “file” are spelled with the same letters. Much of our life’s journey is buried or forgotten, but not irretrievable. Periodically things seem to pop up when we least…
Vayigash – self-communication skills by: Yosef Serebryanski Expecting the unexpected sometimes means, accepting, that what will eventuate is already within the existence that we have. Understanding this seems to be a challenge for many people. The ability to transform our…
Expression, blinders and the future: *** May these brief words be enough to open you up to the truth of what is deep in your heart. *** May you develop the strength to overcome the course of disruptions and/or disturbances…
Vayishlach – The journey. By Yosef Serebryanski There is an ancient saying; “More than the calf wants to suckle, the cow wants to give its milk”. A parent often wants to give to the child more than the child wants…
Relationships-Opening unquenchable Love By Yosef Serebryanski Relationships are about the tangible and the intangible. They are about the dealings between people and people as well as the rest of existence, on a physical and spiritual plane. It is the nature…
Life: Duality – Balance – Oneness by Yosef Serebryanski Infusing balance into the duality of life brings out the oneness in creation. And the life of Sarah was one hundred years and twenty years and seven years, the years of…
By Yosef Serebryanski “And YHVH appeared to him in the plains of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance of the tent in the heat of the day.” (Genesis18:1) Since Abraham was living totally in the present (which is…
Moving – on the go. As change occurs, opportunities open up. The sequence of what happens here is paralleled in the spiritual realms. The chain of events triggers the awakening of the people’s spiritual consciousness. At the same time limitations…
Haazinoo – insight. A person’s soul drops into the physical, far away from its source. It becomes limited by where it has landed in the physical realm. How do we remove that limitation? Is it by becoming spiritual and reuniting…
Vayelech – Movement During our life we have the ability to come and go, to move and change. This is open to us on physical and spiritual levels. Every second encompasses movement. By utilizing most of that movement for positive…
By Yosef Syrabranski Netzavim – Refocusing The body may look stationary, yet on a micro level it is constantly moving and changing. We appear stationary in each moment and you can take a picture of that but that is to…
I have been away from my blog for a couple of days, don’t worry- I am back and will be posting all next week. Hvae a mighty fine shabbos. And it will be when you will come (Deut. 26:1) reflects…
Key Seitzei – getting out into the world A child is conceived comprised of a life force and energy. As the physical body develops so too the life force and energy of the person opens and develops. When the child…
