Rabbi Miriam Lorie

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Parashah of the week: Vayelech

“Moses went and spoke these things to all Israel. He said to them: I am now one hundred and twenty years old, I can no longer go on” Deuteronomy 31:1-2

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Moses before his death, 1907 (Wikimedia Commons)

Pedestrians walk past a homeless man near Windsor Castle (photo: Getty Images)

Parashah of the week: Re’eh

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Daughters of Zelophehad petitioning Moses, 16th century Russian manuscript illumination (Wikimedia Commons)

Parashah of the week: Pinchas

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Miriam, cursed with leprosy (from mid-16th century Netherlands, now in Museum Schnütgen, Cologne/Wikimedia Commons)

Parashah of the week: Beha’alotecha

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Parashah of the week: Acharei Mot-Kedoshim

“You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy” Leviticus 19:2

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May 8, 2025 09:14

The Drunkards by Paul Cezanne - Nachmanides warned against excessive behaviour even when not prohibited by the Torah (Wikimedia Commons)

Parashah of the week: Vayikra

“When a person commits a trespass, being unwittingly remiss about any of God’s sacred things: They shall bring as a penalty to God a ram without blemish from the flock” Leviticus 5:15

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April 4, 2025 10:16

V0034390 A sacrifice taking place in the tabernacle in the wilderness Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org A sacrifice taking place in the tabernacle in the wilderness; the encampments of the tribes spread out to the horizon. Coloured lithograph. Published: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Parashah of the week: Terumah

“And the priest Jehoiada took a chest and bored a hole in its lid… and the priestly guards of the threshold deposited there all the money that was brought into the House of God” 2 Kings 12:10

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February 27, 2025 14:43

Parashah of the week: Va’era

“Yet Pharaoh hardened his heart and he did not heed them, as Hashem had said” Exodus 7:13

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January 24, 2025 10:11

Aaron's rod turning into a serpent at the court of Pharaoh (Phllip Medhurst Collection of Bible Illustrations/Wikimedia Commons)

Parashah of the week: Vayeshev

“After a time, his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, ‘Lie with me’. But he refused” Genesis 39:7-8

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December 19, 2024 10:06

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife by Guido Reni, 1631 (Wikimedia Commons)

Parashah of the week: Vayera

“Early next morning Abraham took some bread and a skin of water, and gave them to Hagar. He placed them over her shoulder, together with the child, and sent her away” Genesis 21:14

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November 14, 2024 13:52

Hagar and Ishmael in the desert by George Hitchcock, 1850-1913 (Wikimedia Commons)

Rabbi Miriam Lorie

Latest from Rabbi Miriam Lorie

Parashah of the week: Vayelech

Parashah of the week: Re’eh

Parashah of the week: Pinchas

Parashah of the week: Beha’alotecha

More from Rabbi Miriam Lorie

Parashah of the week: Acharei Mot-Kedoshim

Parashah of the week: Vayikra

Parashah of the week: Terumah

Parashah of the week: Va’era

Parashah of the week: Vayeshev

Parashah of the week: Vayera