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Parashat Bichukotai Rabbi Goldsmith response to President Obama’s Speech of May 19th 2011
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Parshat Bechukotay – 2011
Parshat Bechukotay May 20, 2011 Leah Goldsmith Most of the counting of the omer takes place in Iyar (May). This is also the month that Shlomo Hamelech began to build the Beit HaMikdash, our Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Iyar is the month that succeeds Nissan, the time of our coming out of narrow-mindedness, as we…
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Parashat Bahar The blessing of following Hashem’s word 2011
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Rabbi Goldsmith Parashat Emor Understanding your place 2011
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Rabbi Goldsmith Pesach Message 2011 Shabbat Hagadol
Blessing over the trees http://youtu.be/J9LN5L9w580
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Pesach – 2011
Pesach April 15, 2011 Our departure from Mitzrayim opened up the locked gates that withheld our personal and national freedom. This happened thousands of years ago, notwithstanding we experienced many other tragic exiles and destructions. When the Maharal of Prague ( 1520-1609) was asked by the people that lived in his generation what the reason…
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Parshat Pekudey – 2011
Parshat Pekudey March 4 2011 “Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the meeting finished and the Children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moshe, so they did.” Parshat Pekudey closes the book of Shemot, the book of our exodus from Egypt. We know the torah doesn’t…
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Parashat Vayakel 2011Was the Mitzvah of theTabernacle a response to the Golden Calf?
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Parshat Vayakhel – 2011
Parshat Vayakhel February 25 2011 Leah Goldsmith Parshat Vayakhel gives the details about how Hashem wants a holy sanctuary, a dwelling place below. This is actually the meeting place of the physical and the meta-physical. There are many lists of items that go into the preparation for such a place. We are introduced at this…