Parashat Vayigash
In this week’s D’var Torah the Chief Rabbi asks how we can maximise the opportunity of every day.
How many days old are you?
This sounds...
Parshat Vayeshev
In this week’s D’var Torah the Chief Rabbi asks what it was that caused the waters to part.
What did the sea see?
In Psalm 114,...
Chanukah
In this week’s D’var Torah, the Chief Rabbi teaches that we learn from the festival of Chanukah that dedication and education must go hand...
Parshat Vayishlach
In this week’s D’var Torah the Chief Rabbi wonders whether El Al is a suitable name for an airline.
Is El Al a suitable name...
Chief Rabbi Dvar Torah: Behar – Bechukotai
More than one million names of Shoah victims are not known to us. I find this to be so heart-breaking. Entire families were wiped...
Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur is an anniversary; it’s the day on which Moshe came down from Mount Sinai on the second occasion. You’ll recall how, on...
Parshat Pinchas
Why are almonds significant for us?
This Shabbat, the first Shabbat of the Three Weeks, we will be reading a Haftorah from the first chapter...
Parshat Vayera
How do we explain the incongruous nature of the blessings at a brit milah? At a circumcision the mohel makes the bracha: ‘al hamila’...
Parshat Nitzavim – Vayelech
Why do Selichot always start on a Saturday night?
This coming Motzei Shabbat in Ashkenazi circles we will be commencing our season of Selichot.
Until medieval...
Parashat Ha’azinu
Let’s make 5778 the year of the rope.
This coming Shabbat in Parashat Ha’azinu which we will read on Shabbat Shuva, the Torah will declare...
