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The blood of the covenant: this week’s parashah, Mishpatim

“Moses took half the blood…” (Exodus 24:7)

By Rabbi Dr Michael Marmur

2 min read

Moses and the Israelites in the wilderness (The Bible and Its Story/Wikimedia Commons)

The giving of the Ten Commandments (Phillip Medhurst Collection/Wikimedia Commons)

Standing together: this week’s parashah, Yitro

“On the third day the Lord will come down, in the sight of the entire nation, on Mount Sinai” (Exodus 19:11)

By Joanne Greenaway

1 min read

The Egyptians pursue the Israelites across the Red Sea, Frederick Arthur Bridgman, c 1888 (Wikimedia Commons)

The faith of a nation: this week’s parashah, Beshallach

“The Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, chasing after them. They were terrified” Exodus 14:10

By Rabbi Alex Israel

1 min read

The Ninth Plague, Darkness, Gustave Doré (Wikimedia Commons)

Fear of darkness: this week’s sidrah, Bo

“Hold out your arm toward the sky that there may be darkness upon the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be touched” Exodus 10:2

By Rabbi Hannah Kingston

1 min read

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

By Rabbi Dr Yoni Birnbaum

1 min read

The ambiguous identity of Moses: this week’s parashah, Shemot

“When Moses grew up he went out to his people and witnessed their burdens. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people” Exodus 2:11

By Rabbi Dr Michael Marmur

1 min read

Burial in Israel: this week’s parashah, Vayechi

“The time approached for Israel to die, so he called for his son, Joseph, and said to him… please do not bury me in Egypt. And I will lie down with my fathers, and you shall transport me out of Egypt and bury me in their grave. Genesis 47:29-30)

By Joanne Greenaway

1 min read

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Sibling rivalries: this week’s parashah, Vayiggash

“Judah stepped forward” Genesis 44:18

By Rabbi Alex Israel

1 min read

Joseph and his brothers by Franz Anton Maulbertsch c 1750 (Wikimedia Commons)

A leader’s tears: this week’s parashah, Mikketz

“And he turned away from them, and he wept” Genesis 42:24

By Rabbi Hannah Kingston

1 min read

Joseph receiving his brothers in Egypt, Francesco Bacchiacca, 1515 (Wikimedia Commons)

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

By Rabbi Dr Yoni Birnbaum

1 min read

Joseph's dream, Owen Carter Jones, 1869 (Wikimedia Commons)

Divided camps – this week’s parashah: Vayishlach

“Jacob was greatly frightened; in his anxiety, he divided the people with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two camps” Genesis 32:8

By Rabbi Dr Michael Marmur

1 min read

Jacob's encounter with Esau, Simon de Vos, 1641 (Wikimedia Commons)

Parashah of the week: Vayetze

“She conceived and bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my disgrace’” Genesis 30:23

By Joanne Greenaway

1 min read

Detail from Dante Gabriel Rossetti's portrait of Rachel and Leah (Wikimedia Commons)

Parashah of the week: Toldot

“He ate, he drank, he rose, he left. Esau spurned the birthright” Genesis 25:29-34

By Rabbi Alex Israel

1 min read

Esau trades his birthright with Jacob for a mess of pottage by Jan Victors, 1653 (Wikimedia Commons)

Parashah of the week: Chayei Sarah

“And Eliezer said, ‘O Adonai, God of my master Abraham’s house, grant me good fortune this day, and deal graciously with my master Abraham’” Genesis 24:12

By Rabbi Hannah Kingston

1 min read

Eliezer and Rebecca at the Well, Carlo Maratta, 60s (Wikimedia Commons)

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

By Rabbi Dr Yoni Birnbaum

1 min read

A tamarisk tree (photo: Cheima Fezzani/Wikimedia Commons)

Parashah of the week: Lech Lecha

“Look around from where you are, to the north and the south, to the east and the west, for all the land that you see I am giving to you and your descendants forever” Genesis 13:14-15

By Rabbi Dr Michael Marmur

1 min read

Abraham's journey from Ur to Canaan by József Moinár, 1850 (Wikimedia Commons)

Parashah of the week: Noach

“When Noah had lived 500 years, Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth” Genesis 5:32

By Joanne Greenaway

1 min read

Noah's sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth, Artist by James Tissot (1836-1902) (The Jewish Museum New York/Wikimedia Commons)

Parashat of the week: Bereshit

“The Lord looked favourably on Abel and his offering but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favour” Genesis 4:5

By Rabbi Alex Israel

2 min read

Cain and Abel by Titian (Wikimedia Commons)

Parashah of the week: Shabbat Chol Hamo’ed Succot

“And you shall not appear before Me empty-handed” Exodus 34:20

By Rabbi Benjy Morgan

1 min read

Celebrating Succot in Johannesburg, South Africa, October 2025 (photo: Getty Images)

Parashah of the week: Ha’azinu

“Moses came, together with Hosea son of Nun, and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people” Deuteronomy 32:44

By Rabbi Paul Freedman

2 min read

A new Torah scroll being completed in Berlin last year (Photo:Getty Images)

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

By Rabbi Miriam Lorie

1 min read

Moses before his death, 1907 (Wikimedia Commons)

Parashah of the week: Nitzavim

“I will greatly rejoice (sos asis) in God… like a bridegroom adorned like a priest, like a bride bedecked in her finery” (Isaiah 61:10)

By Rabbi Dr Harris Bor

1 min read

The covenant between God and Israel is compared to a marriage (photo: Getty Images)

Parashah of the week: Ki Tavo

“Cursed be the one who misdirects a blind person who is underway. And all the people shall say, Amen” Deuteronomy 27:18

By Rabbi Natasha Mann

1 min read

Queen Street Mall in Brisbane, Australia on International White Cane Day (photo: John Robert McPherson/Wikimedia Commons)

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