These and Those

Musings from Students of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem

Tag Archives: Parsha / Parasha

[PEP Student] Rehabilitate the Trauma

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Tamara Frankel

Dear Friends, I hope you are all well and had a good week. This past week was my first back at Pardes after the semester break, so it has been a bit of an adjustment: new classes, new people and new schedules. Having said all that, I’m very excited to be back in the Bet Continue Reading »

משפטים, mishpatim

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Avi Strausberg

this week’s parsha entitled mishpatim translates to law in english.  and this parsha is aptly titled as the bulk of the parsha is a long, long list of rules that it is quite easy to get lost in.  topics covered include but are not limited to goring oxes, tunneling thieves, uncovered pits, and virgin-seducers.  but, Continue Reading »

[PEP Student] Revelation @ Mt. Sinai

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Tamara Frankel

Dear Friends, I hope you are well. This past week has been quite a busy one and at times, a difficult one for me. My cousin’s father, Eli Bellaiche z”l, passed away last week after a trying battle with cancer. He was an incredibly sweet and loving husband, father and grandfather and although we didn’t Continue Reading »

Professor Uriel Simon: Am I My Brother’s Keeper: An Anatomy of Fratricide

Posted on January 20, 2011 by The Director of Digital Media

Pardes is honored to have had Bar-Ilan Professor Uriel Simon lecture. Below are last year’s lectures from Professor Simon on “Am I My Brother’s Keeper: An Anatomy of Fratricide.” This is an example of what Pardes students and community benefit from. Professor Simon was the chair of the Bible Department at Bar-Ilan University. This is Continue Reading »

יתרו, yitro

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Avi Strausberg

i’ve been wondering for the past few parshot to whom moshe is able to turn when overwhelmed by the responsibility that has been thrust upon him.  as the middle man, he receives all of God’s direct commands while bearing the weight of the people’s fear and doubt.  God is able to rant to moshe about Continue Reading »

Professor Uriel Simon on the Expulsion from Eden

Posted on January 17, 2011 by The Director of Digital Media

Pardes is honored to have had Bar Ilan Professor Uriel Simon lecture. Below are last year’s lectures from Professor Simon on “Expulsion from Eden – Is Eve to be blamed for everything.” This is from the Annual Hershdorfer Kantrowitz Brettler Lecture Series at Pardes on February 2, 2010.

[PEP Student] Salvation

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Tamara Frankel

Dear Friends, I hope you are all well, wherever you are and whatever crazy winter weather you are experiencing! It’s hard to believe that the fall semester at Pardes ended last week. I have learned SO much in these last few months and look forward to soaking up as much Torah as possible, further exploring Continue Reading »

בשלח, beshallach

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Avi Strausberg

In this week’s parsha, God finally makes good on His promise to the Jewish people and gets the Israelites out of Egypt in style.  This is no shabby saving; The hand of God Himself causes the sea to swell and the waters to part.  While the Israelites breeze through on dry land with walls of Continue Reading »

בא, bo

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Avi Strausberg

this is the parsha where it all happens.  the full wrath of God, manifested in swarming locusts and complete darkness, falls not only pharoah but on the egyptian people, while the israelites watch protected on the sidelines.  when God sent thunder and hail and fire raining down on all of egypt, which struck every man Continue Reading »

[PEP Student] Parshat Va’era

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Tamara Frankel

Dear Friends, Much of the Book of Exodus, including last week’s Parshat Va’era, is about linking the beginnings of the world, and particularly the history of one family (i.e. Abraham and Sarah’s), their struggles and triumphs, to the development and history of a specific nation, soon to be known as Bnei Yisrael–the Jewish People. I Continue Reading »