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June 12, 2015
By bethmordecai
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Parashat Sh’lah L’kha (שלח לך) — Why Is Life So Hard?

Parashat Sh'lah L'kha (שלח לך) -- Why Is Life So Hard? Every person experiences challenges in their daily life. For some those challenges are major and for some they are minor. But no one has experienced life without some aspect of pain, suffering, or difficulty. Why is this? Why can't life be easier? Why does it seem that we have to go through pain to discover life's greatest moments? This week, we will try to answer these questions by unpacking one verse (Numbers 14:17) from this week's Torah portion of Sh'lah L'kha with the help of the hasidic Torah commentary Noam Elimelekh. Join us for this fascinating conversation about the nature of life! Classes from other years: Triennial III (2013/5773) -- One Torah[...]

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January 23, 2015
By bethmordecai
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Parashat Bo (בא) — The Jewish Origin for Counting Time

Parashat Bo 2015/5775 (Triennial II) -- The Jewish Origin for Counting Time (or JST, Jewish Standard Time) This week we celebrated the new Jewish month (hodesh) of Sh'vat in which we will celebrate the "New Year of the trees" (to take place in the middle of the month). While counting months of a year seems natural, it was in many ways an innovation at a time when the year was organized strictly by the sun. In this week's Torah portion, we read this moment of innovation in which God commands Moses and Aaron to appoint "this month as the head of all months" (Exodus 12:1-2). What does this innovation teach us about the unique way in which God wanted the Israelites[...]

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