Rabbi Eli Birnbaum
Parashah of the week: Shemini Atzeret
“May Hashem our God be with us, as he was with our ancestors. May we never be abandoned or forsaken” I Kings 8:57
Parashah of the week: Ki Tavo
“And you shall call out and declare before Hashem your God: ‘An Aramean [Laban] attempted to destroy my ancestor [Jacob], and he descended to Egypt’” Deuteronomy 26:5
Parashah of the week: Va`etchanan
“But Hashem grew angry with me… and did not heed me” Deuteronomy 3:26
Parashah of the Week: Korach
"He should remove…the fire pans brought by those who sinned against their own souls, and hammer the pans into a cover for the altar" Numbers 17:2-3
Parashah of the week: Bemidbar
“This is the service of the members of the Kehat family in the Tent of Meeting... they shall first lower the screening curtain and cover the Ark of the Testimony with it” Numbers 4:4-5
Parashah of the week: Shemini
“And the entire congregation drew close and stood in front of Hashem. And Moses said: ‘This is the [specific] matter that Hashem has commanded you to do, so that the Divine Presence will appear to you’” Leviticus 9:5-6
Parashah of the week: Ki Tissa
“Instruct the Israelite people to bring you a red heifer without blemish” Numbers 19:2
Parashah of the week: Beshallach
“And God hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he pursued the Children of Israel… and the Egyptian army chased after them, and caught up to them as they were encamped by the sea” Exodus 14:8-9
Parashah of the week: Vayiggash
“And Joseph was unable to contain himself from all those attending him and he called out: ‘Remove everyone from before me!’ Thus no one was present when he revealed his identity to his brothers” Genesis 45:1
Parashah of the week: Toldot
“And Isaac dug anew the wells which had been dug in the days of Abraham his father…and he called them by the same names that his father had called them” Genesis 26:18
Parashah of the week: Bereshit
“And Hashem said to Cain, ‘Where is Abel, your brother?’ And he replied, ‘I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?’ And Hashem said, ‘What have you done? Your brother’s bloods cry out to Me from the soil’” Genesis 4:9
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