Pinchas, פִּינְחָס

Included in this week’s parsha is the Olat Tamid  — the burnt offering that was sacrificed on the sanctuary altar twice a day, every day.   Tamid means “always” — not just now and then, but all the time, regularly — reminding us of the importance of constancy and steadfastness in our connection to God.  […]

“If there are two people and one of them honors you and the other disparages you, are they the same in your eyes or not?”    This is the question that the kabbalist Rabbi Yitzhak of Acco reports in the name of Rabbi Avner as being the essential question of equanimity, a state necessary in order

In devoting my life to Torah, I consider that I am carrying on the legacy of my father and my grandfather. My father loved Rashi so much that he believed that he was given an extra four years of life in order to pursue more of his work on Rashi. My grandfather was shot in

Our lives, our choices are not completely determined by our parents’ paths and by our past. We each shape our own destinies. At every moment we have complete freedom to act in a fresh new way. In this week’s parsha we find a few examples of this freedom. Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milchah and Tirzah are