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Bio for Rabbi Ben Goodman
A project of My Dvar Torah, Torah Bite is your resource for a short, dynamic, and meaningful Dvar Torah to...
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My wife is currently not talk to her mother. She is an only daughter, and with her father’s passing nearly a year ago,...
Corona Diary #26: Time After Time by Rabbi Moshe Taragin
Jewish holidays recount seminal moments of Jewish history. These annual celebrations shape our collective memory just as they animate our common future. The celebration...
Cyber-Towers of Modern Bavel
Sadly, an entire planet had suffered total moral collapse and was tragically annihilated by the violent waters of the flood. Noach’s world disappears and...
Torah from Israel – Ki Tisa: Emulsifying Shabbos
The mitzvah of Shabbat is so seminal that it surfaces in five different parshiyot in Sefer Shemot. Among these ‘appearances” is the discussion of Shabbat in one of the opening...
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...
Torah reading: why specify the obvious?
Lineage
The sidra begins, "Say to the kohanim the descendants of Aaron". The definition of the kohanim as descending from Aaron seems too obvious to...
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...
Seedlings turn overnight into sunflowers
In the second blessing of the Amidah, we talk about the revival of the dead. Indeed, belief in the resurrection of the dead is...
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’...
