[PCJE] Ki Tavoh: First Fruits and New Beginnings
Night Seder Chevrutas Binyamin Cohen and David Wallach join together to reflect on this week's parshah, Ki Tavo. דְּבָרִים כו:ב, ה ב “וְלָקַחְתָּ מֵרֵאשִׁית כָּל-פְּרִי הָאֲדָמָה, אֲשֶׁר תָּבִיא...
View Article[PCJE] Parshat Nitzavim-Va’Yelech: We’re in this together!
Night Seder Chevrutas Binyamin Cohen and David Wallach join together to reflect on this week's parshah. דְּבָרִים כט:ט “אַתֶּם נִצָּבִים הַיּוֹם כֻּלְּכֶם, לִפְנֵי יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם: רָאשֵׁיכֶם...
View Article(PCJE) Ha’azinu/Ten Days of Repentence: “When I find myself in times of...
Night Seder Chevrutas Binyamin Cohen and David Wallach join together to reflect on this week's parshah. דְּבָרִים לב:א “הַאֲזִינוּ הַשָּׁמַיִם, וַאֲדַבֵּרָה; וְתִשְׁמַע הָאָרֶץ, אִמְרֵי-פִי.” “Listen...
View ArticleYom Kippur and Shabbat: Conflict and Compromise
This year Yom Kippur falls on Shabbat: the two holiest days in the Jewish calendar at the same time. However, the ethos of Yom Kippur and the ethos of Shabbat are contradictory. How do we negotiate...
View Article[PCJE] Kohelet: Let it Go
Night Seder Chevrutas Binyamin Cohen and David Wallach join together to reflect on this week's parshah. Kohelet, the book of Ecclesiastes, which we read on Shabbat Chol HaMoed Sukkot, is a depressing...
View Article[PCJE] Vezot HaBeracha: His Last Bow
Night Seder Chevrutas Binyamin Cohen and David Wallach join together to reflect on this week's parshah. א וְזֹאת הַבְּרָכָה, אֲשֶׁר בֵּרַךְ מֹשֶׁה אִישׁ הָאֱלֹהִים–אֶת-בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל: לִפְנֵי,...
View Article[PCJE] Bereshit: The Nature of Creation
Night Seder Chevrutas Binyamin Cohen and David Wallach join together to reflect on this week's parshah. בְּרֵאשִׁית ב:ט וַיַּצְמַח יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים, מִן-הָאֲדָמָה, כָּל-עֵץ נֶחְמָד לְמַרְאֶה, וְטוֹב...
View Article[PCJE] Lech-Lecha: Hearing the Call
Night Seder Chevrutas Binyamin Cohen and David Wallach join together to reflect on this week's parshah. בְּרֵאשִׁית י”ב:א “וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֶל-אַבְרָם, לֶךְ-לְךָ מֵאַרְצְךָ וּמִמּוֹלַדְתְּךָ וּמִבֵּית...
View Article[PCJE] VaYerah: Being Human
Night Seder Chevrutas Binyamin Cohen and David Wallach join together to reflect on this week's parshah. בְּרֵאשִׁית י”ח:י”ז וַיהוָה, אָמָר: הַמְכַסֶּה אֲנִי מֵאַבְרָהָם, אֲשֶׁר אֲנִי עֹשֶׂה ‘God said,...
View ArticleParshat Noach: Building and Community
This week’s parsha, Parshat Noach, is a parsha about building. It is flanked by the stories of the Flood and the Tower of Babel, two stories in which something substantial is built by human hands....
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Parshat Vayigash
I don’t deserve this. We don’t deserve this. I’ve changed, we all have. We don’t deserve this, Yehuda thinks to himself, as he approaches the strange man on the strange throne before him. Strange, yet...
View ArticleTurkey 2016: Learning from History
We got off our minibus at the top of the ridge, sparse trees all around us. We began to follow the road up to the peak, and as we do we begin to see signs of the reason we’re here: trenches, tunnels,...
View ArticleTurkey 2016: Hail to the Chief
The Hahambashi, Chief Rabbi of Turkey, Rabbi Yitzchak Haleva, is quite a character. He’s not a big man, but his jutting beard, bright eyes, and fireball personality make him unforgettable. We had the...
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Yom Kippur and Shabbat: Conflict and Compromise
This year Yom Kippur falls on Shabbat: the two holiest days in the Jewish calendar at the same time. However, the ethos of Yom Kippur and the ethos of Shabbat are contradictory. How do we negotiate...
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[PCJE] Kohelet: Let it Go
Night Seder Chevrutas Binyamin Cohen and David Wallach join together to reflect on this week's parshah. Kohelet, the book of Ecclesiastes, which we read on Shabbat Chol HaMoed Sukkot, is a depressing...
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[PCJE] Vezot HaBeracha: His Last Bow
Night Seder Chevrutas Binyamin Cohen and David Wallach join together to reflect on this week's parshah. א וְזֹאת הַבְּרָכָה, אֲשֶׁר בֵּרַךְ מֹשֶׁה אִישׁ הָאֱלֹהִים–אֶת-בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל: לִפְנֵי,...
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[PCJE] Bereshit: The Nature of Creation
Night Seder Chevrutas Binyamin Cohen and David Wallach join together to reflect on this week's parshah. בְּרֵאשִׁית ב:ט וַיַּצְמַח יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים, מִן-הָאֲדָמָה, כָּל-עֵץ נֶחְמָד לְמַרְאֶה, וְטוֹב...
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[PCJE] Lech-Lecha: Hearing the Call
Night Seder Chevrutas Binyamin Cohen and David Wallach join together to reflect on this week's parshah. בְּרֵאשִׁית י”ב:א “וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֶל-אַבְרָם, לֶךְ-לְךָ מֵאַרְצְךָ וּמִמּוֹלַדְתְּךָ וּמִבֵּית...
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[PCJE] VaYerah: Being Human
Night Seder Chevrutas Binyamin Cohen and David Wallach join together to reflect on this week's parshah. בְּרֵאשִׁית י”ח:י”ז וַיהוָה, אָמָר: הַמְכַסֶּה אֲנִי מֵאַבְרָהָם, אֲשֶׁר אֲנִי עֹשֶׂה ‘God said,...
View ArticleParshat Noach: Building and Community
This week’s parsha, Parshat Noach, is a parsha about building. It is flanked by the stories of the Flood and the Tower of Babel, two stories in which something substantial is built by human hands....
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