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“Hashem said to Avram: Get yourself away from your country and from your birth-place and from your father’s house” (Genesis 12:1). “But Lord, how can I leave my country? Look – I’m 75 years old, You ...

Change affects us in a number of ways. How do we incorporate change into our lives? Are we willing to change when needed or do we put up resistance? Every morning in the Siddur, we ask a number of ...

Twenty years ago today, on October 15, 1998, I made Aliyah at age 20 from Manchester, UK. That’s right. I have officially spent half my life (if you don’t count our three-year hiatus in the US, which ...

Jewish tradition places great significance on names. With the addition of just one letter, at the age of 99, Abram becomes Abraham and his transformation to the father of many nations is confirmed. At ...

The Land of Israel and the modern state of Israel are alive and well, and ready to welcome home Jews from all corners of the Earth. “Lech Lecha… to the land I will show you,” God says to Abraham at ...

The verse above is a good example of the saying that all translation is betrayal. Translating ha-ivri as “the Hebrew” does not reflect the nuances and depth of the Hebrew word and lessens our ability ...

“Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain, and he pitched his tents until Sodom” Genesis 13:12 A torah (Hebrew scripture) reading. The "yod" - a hand-shaped silver ...