by Chat | Sep 22, 2026 | Torah & Inspiration
Ha’azinu is written as a shirah—a song. Its words do not appear in the Torah’s usual blocks of text, but in two distinct columns, almost like verses waiting to be sung. The Kabbalists teach that a song is created not from a single note, but from the movement between...
by Chat | Sep 22, 2026 | Torah & Inspiration
This Shabbat is also the first day of Rosh Hashanah, so the regular weekly parsha gives way to the special festival reading. Unusually, because it is Shabbat, we do not blow the shofar. At first, this may seem like something is missing. The shofar is the defining...
by Chat | Sep 22, 2026 | Torah & Inspiration
This week’s double parsha begins with two seemingly opposite ideas. Nitzavim means “standing firmly”, while Vayeilech means “and he went”. Chassidic teaching, drawing on Kabbalah, explains that these words describe two essential movements of the soul. First, we must...
by Chat | Sep 22, 2026 | Torah & Inspiration
Parshat Ki Tavo begins with the mitzvah of bikkurim. A farmer enters his field and notices the first fruit beginning to ripen. He ties a thread around it and later brings it to the Beit HaMikdash. Standing before the Kohen, he recounts the story of the Jewish...
