• Shabbat Zachor: Remembering Amalek’s Challenge

    This week is “Shabbat Zachor,” the “Shabbat of Remembering”.   Since it is just before Purim and on Purim we were threatened by Haman who was a direct descendant of Amalek, we fulfill the biblical commandment this Shabbat to remember what Amalek did to us. We do this by reading a portion from Divarim about…

  • Connecting to Our Ancestors in Challenging Times

    We have been here before,- on the seder night of the first Pesach, in Egypt, the Jewish people could not leave their houses for fear of the threat on the outside.  Though it’s true that they had each other in groups that first Pesach, how many times in Jewish history were Jews eating matzah hiding…