Vayera
My Weekly Drash (a mini D'var Torah) -- Vayera (3)
Posted by Daniel M. Kimmel | Tags: Vayera
The story of Lot is a baffling one. What we remember is that his wife turns to a pillar of salt, but that’s actually the least interesting part of the story. When a Sodomite mob demands he produce his male guests (actually angels) for implied gang rape, his response is to offer his virgin...
Early Childhood Education
Posted by Rabbi Avi Heller | Tags: Vayera
I'm not an expert in early childhood education, but I was a kid once and I have three growing children who are rapidly learning about themselves, their values and their world. Aside from a few songs and various bits of material that I must have re-learned many times since then, I don't remember very...
My video divrei Torah on this parasha from youtube
Posted by Jonathan Ginsburg | Tags: Vayera
Tower of Babel vs Abraham's Call Lech lecha jewu 440 How do non-Jews achieve salvation? Noahide laws JewU 155 Torah portion Noah and the flood JewU 60Sputnik, Bears half-time speech and rainbows JewU 245 Noah, water-too much and too little JewU 247
VaYeira 5769/2008: “Which Fire?”
Posted by Rabbi Menachem Creditor | Tags: Vayera
© Rabbi Menachem Creditor When we tell the story of the Akeidah, the Binding of Isaac, how do we tell it? Do we dare question the God who commands the unthinkable? Do we allow the text which portrays God this way to push us completely away from faith, rejecting the troubling image? Do we...
My Weekly Drash (a mini D'var Torah) - Vayera (2)
Posted by Daniel M. Kimmel | Tags: Vayera
When Sarah is told she will have a child in her old age she laughs and says, “Now that I am withered, am I to have enjoyment – with my husband so old?” (Gen 18:12). When God quotes this to Abraham, He puts it this way, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I in truth bear a child, old as I...
Avraham v. Emily Post
Posted by Dena Weiss | Tags: Vayera
-- Dena Weiss Alexander Schmemann, an American Orthodox theologian of the past century, suggested that the sin of Adam and Chava (in his view, “original sin”), was that they began to look at the world as sacred and profane, as tov v’ra, as opposed to viewing the entire world as a gift...
Sodom
Posted by Abe Mezrich | Tags: Vayera
God punishes the twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous. * Angels disguised as men come to Sodom. The men of the city…both young and old, all the people from every quarter, surround the house...
My Weekly Drash (a mini D'var Torah) - Vayera
Posted by Daniel M. Kimmel | Tags: Vayera
In Parshah Vayera we encounter the Akedah, the story of the binding of Isaac in preparation for a sacrifice for which, thankfully, there is a last minute substitution. It is a story the defies easy explanation, and each time we read it we may have new questions. It begins as we’re told “God...
Welcoming Visitors in the Synagogue
Posted by Al Kustanowitz | Tags: Vayera
This Sukkot, we had the honor of hosting a relative who happens to be an esteemed rabbi and scholar. On the first day he wanted to get to shul at the start of services, a goal that I strongly support but don’t often achieve. So I sent him off, with etrog and lulav in hand, and a plan to connect...
Isaac remembers his father Abraham
Posted by Shoshana Michael Zucker | Tags: Vayera
Parashat Vayera 5756 (11/11/95) In memory of PM Yitzchak Rabin and Benjamin Welber. Abraham, my father! Isaac, your son, your only one whom you loved stands before you today, crying and confused. You, who were everything in my life, lie before me now, lifeless and cold. All...
