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Torah Portion


Articles on the weekly Torah readings, including inspiration and explanations.

 MOSES PROVIDED a meticulous accounting of every donation collected for the Mishkan.

Parashat Pekudei: Don’t walk away

A LEADER should choose the alternative path.

Parashat Pekudei: The beauty of transparency

 THE MESSAGE: Give what you can, but from the heart.

Parashat Vayakhel: Giving from the heart

 An illustrative image of a young girl holding outlines of dumbbells.

Parashat Tetzaveh: Yes, you can!

 THE OBJECT permanently placed in the holiest site on Earth had the pure faces of innocent children.

Parashat Teruma: ‘Its interior is filled with love’

 THE METAPHOR of father and daughter is explored.

Parashat Teruma: Make Me a sanctuary for Me to dwell in

 An illustrative image of a coinpurse.

Parashat Mishpatim: The Jewish consciousness of ‘hessed’

 An illustrative image of a path leading to a cloud formation shaped like a heart with sunlight shining through.

Parashat Yitro: Preceding the Torah

 Lightning is seen over Palmachim Beach.

Parashat Yitro: Hearing the silence, seeing the sound

 An illustrative image of chess pieces.

Parashat Beshalach: The path to victory

 An illustrative image of feet walking through the water.

Parashat Beshalach: How to cross the Reed Sea

By RAPHAEL SHUCHAT
 SUPERMOON RISES over Jerusalem this past November.

Parashat Bo: Beautiful as the moon

 In a recent article, Dr. Zahi Hawass, the Egyptian former Minister of Antiquities, addressed the enduring myth of the Curse of the Pharaohs.

Parashat Va'era: Pharaoh’s sin of hubris

 Moses was a leader with humility, which is what we should be looking for today.

Parashat Shemot: Compassion and respect for others

 Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.

Parashat Shemot: Women as leaders

By RABBI JONATHAN SACKS
 Jacob blesses his grandchildren Ephraim and Menashe, while their father, Joseph, steadies him, and a woman, presumably their mother, look on, in this 1656 oil-on-canvas painting by Rembrandt.

Parashat Vayehi: A nation of grandparents

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Parashat Vayehi: The blessing of connection

 Reuben and his brothers. Detail of a painting by Colijn de Coter circa 1500, from a collection at the National Museum in Warsaw.

Parashat Vayehi: The traits of a leader

 Joseph is see embracing and crying on the neck of his brother Benjamin as their brothers look on in this episode from the Bible depicted in the 1908 work 'The Bible and Its Story,' edited by Charles F. Horne.

Parashat Vayigash: Trading passion for compassion

 An illustrative image of two mountain climbers, one helping another.

Parashat Vayigash: Salvation is near

 An illustrative image of farming in Israel.

Parashat Miketz: Joseph, the master of ‘provention’

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