Parshat Ki Tisa 5776: Anointment and Anointing Oil of Kehunah and Kingship — Denoting Sanctity and Purity, NOT Nefarious Plot

Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua, Ki Tisa is being sponsored by Steven and Debra Glanz and family of Ramat Beit Shemesh dedicated for the success of their chldren. To the Glanz family, many thanks for your sponsorship and for your continued kindnesses.

You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua.

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Parshat Tetzaveh 5776: Teshuvah and the Oil of Illumination

Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua, Parshat Tetzaveh is being sponsored by Yossie and Elisheva Schulman and family of Ramat Beit Shemesh dedicated for continued refuah shlaima for Yishaya Shalom ben Malka Gittel. To the Schulman family, many thanks for your sponsorship and for your continued kindnesses.

You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua. read more

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Parshat Terumah 5776: Pure Motivation in “Taking” Hashem’s Portion

Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua, Parshat Terumah is being sponsored by R’ Joel and Shelly Padowitz and family of Ramat Beit Shemesh on the occasion of the birthday of R’ Joel’s friend Gavriel ben Mordechai (Enoch) . To the Padowitz family, many thanks for your sponsorship and for your continued kindnesses.

You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua. read more

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Parshat Mishpatim 5776: Honesty and Morality, Justice and Purity in Judgement of Fellow Jews vs Judicial Prejudice and Bias

Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua, Parshat Mishpatim is being sponsored by Daniel and Amy Michaels and family of Ramat Beit Shemesh Lilui Nishmas for Daniel’s Mother, Ora bat Avraham Naftali. To the Michaels family, many thanks for your sponsorship and for your continued kindnesses.

You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua. read more

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Parshat Yithro 5776: Why Moshe Rabbeinu, or any Single Principled Leader Today Can’t Adjudicate Am Yisrael Alone

Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua, Parsha Yithro is being sponsored by R’ Moshe and Marla Braun (Moshe Braun – Fine Judaic Art) and family of Ramat Beit Shemesh in honor of Marla’s birthday on 14th Sh’vat. To the Braun family, many thanks for your sponsorship and for your continued kindnesses.

You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua. read more

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Parshat Beshalach 5776: Why the Circuitous Route for B’nei Yisrael, Is Failure to Reach Our Divine Calling Holding Back the Redemption?

Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua — Parshat Beshalach is being sponsored by Dr. Edo and Atara Lavi and dedicated for Nachi starting to crunch sugyas. To Mishpochat Lavi, many thanks for your sponsorship and for your continued kindnesses.

You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua.

Please forward to your relatives and friends and encourage them to sponsor a Parshat HaShevua. And please be in contact with me with any questions, or for further details. read more

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Parshat Bo 5776: The Two Bloods — Bris Milah, Korban Pesach — Measuring a Paradigm of Mesirus Nefesh, of Worthiness in Our Times?

Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua — Parshat Bo is being sponsored by Dr. Pinchas and P’nina Klahr and dedicated lilui nishmas for Pinchas’ Father Rav Nosson Karpel ben Rav Shmuel Zanvil Tzvi and for P’nina’s Father Rav Matisyahu ben Rav Yaakov. To Mishpochat Klahr, many thanks for your sponsorship and for your continued kindnesses.

You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua. read more

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Parshat Va’eira 5776: The Other Purpose of Slavery, Oppression and the Plagues (Makos)

Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua — Parshat Va’era is being sponsored by Binyamin and Tracy Skriloff and dedicated for a total, complete refuah shlaima for Binyamin’s neice Zeesa Baila bat Mindel Pescha. To Mishpochat Skriloff, many thanks for your sponsorship and for your continued kindnesses.

You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua. read more

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Parshat Sh’mot 5776: Coalescing Historical Accounts of the Evolution of Jewish Enslavement in Mitzrayim, Lessons for Today?

Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua — Parshat Sh’mot is being sponsored by Yitzchak and Leyla Gross of Wynnewood, PA to commemorate the Yahrtzeit of Yitzchak’s Mother: Chaya Yita Sarah Bat Aharon. To Mishpochat Gross, many thanks for your sponsorship, your kindnesses through the years in helping facilitate Sefer Torah recycling, and for your continued kindnesses.

You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua. read more

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Parshat Vayechi 5776: Yosef”s Oath to Yaakov, and Our Times

Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua — Parshat Vayechi is being sponsored by Dr. Ari and Rivka Stern and dedicated for Mazel Tov on the upcoming marriage of their son Yisrael Zev to Chaya Bracha Shapiro. To Mishpochat Stern, many thanks for your sponsorship and for your continued kindnesses.

You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua. read more

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