Rabbi Dr Yoni Birnbaum

What counts: this week’s sidrah, Emor

“And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the Omer of the wave offering; seven complete Sabbaths shall there be” Leviticus 23:15

What a rabbi and rebbetzin learnt when they went back to university

‘We need to find ways to ensure young people feel connected to their congregations when they return home’

The everlasting flame: this week’s parashah, Tzav

“A constant fire shall burn upon the altar; it shall not go out” Leviticus 6:6

Building a home: this week’s parashah, Terumah

“Make for Me a sanctuary, and I will dwell among them” Exodus 25:8

A question of inheritance: this week’s parashah, Va’era

“And I will bring you to the Land, which I have raised My hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for an inheritance: I am the Lord’’ Exodus 6:8

Dream warnings: this week’s parashah – Vayeshev

“Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, when my sheaf rose and stood upright; and your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to my sheaf” Genesis 37:7

Parashah of the week: Vayera

“Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the Name of the Lord, the Everlasting God” Genesis 22:33

Pesach’s story of hope and redemption will give us strength

In these difficult times, the words of the Haggadah will resonate more deeply with us

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