Rabbi Dr Yoni Birnbaum

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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

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Ear of barley (photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Rabbi Dr Yoni and Rebbetzin Elisheva Birnbaum with Birmingham University students (Photo: courtesy)

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

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The everlasting flame: this week’s parashah, Tzav

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The Tabernacle in the wilderness (from the 1890 Holman Illustrated Bible/Wikimedia Commons)

Building a home: this week’s parashah, Terumah

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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

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January 15, 2026 11:46

A mountain gazelle runs on a hill next to a forest in the suburb of Jerusalem (photo: Getty Images)

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

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December 11, 2025 16:29