These and Those

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

Tag Archives: Parsha / Parasha

Guest Post: Tovah Leah Nachmani

Posted on December 28, 2011 by The Director of Digital Media

Many students have been lucky enough to study with Tovah Leah Nachmani – her ‘Personalizing Prayer’ class is a favorite for students seeking to connect to Jewish tradition in a meaningful, personal way, and we appreciate her for being such an incredibly deep listener. Below is a dvar Torah she recently wrote, with a bonus Continue Reading »

מקץ

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Barer

This week’s parsha, which was playfully called The Empire Strikes Back parsha of Yosef’s saga, brought to light just how true it is that the texts that make up the Tanach are in dialogue with each other.  Specifically, I saw multiple hints in the text of Miketz that are amplified in the story of Esther, Continue Reading »

[Pardes From Jerusalem Podcast] Miketz and Chanukah 5772

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Barer

On this week’s podcast, James Jacobson-Maisels discusses Miketz and Chanukah through the eyes of the Eish Kodesh Miketz/Chanukah

Mikketz, Chanukah, the Holocaust, and Dreams: a D’var Torah from 2009

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Derek Kwait

At my shul back home, Young People’s Synagogue, members take turns giving the d’var Torah each Saturday morning. This is one I gave for Parashat Mikketz/Shabbat Chanukah on December 19, 2009 about the parsha, Chanukah, and the Holocaust. For what it’s worth, these themes repeated themselves again this year when we began learning about the Continue Reading »

Night Seder Dvar: Vayeishev

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Shibley

Our parasha, Vayeishev, concludes this week with Yosef sitting in the prison of Pharaoh. Yosef has just concluded interpreting the dreams of his fellow prisoners, the cupbearer and the baker, both of whom had committed relatively minor crimes in the eyes of Pharoah. Why would Yosef care about the dreams of anybody? Remember, Yosef has Continue Reading »

[Pardes from Jerusalem Podcast] Vayeshev 5772

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Barer

This week’s podcast features Neima Novetsky talking about the sale of Yosef: Vayeshev 5772

וישב

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Barer

This week’s parsha is full of the narrative action we have become familiar with in Bereishit, with this parsha in particular being so great as to be turned into a Broadway musical (Joseph and the Amazing Coat of Many Colours).  However, a less-known fact is that the Rashbam chooses the beginning of this parsha to Continue Reading »

[Pardes from Jerusalem Podcast] Vayishlach 5772

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Barer

This week Meesh discusses the troubling episode of the rape of Dina vayishlach 5772

וישלח

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Barer

This week’s parsha has so much going on that it is hard to figure out one thing to talk about.  I want to focus on something that occurs simply on the level of the text itself, without considering any commentators.  Over the course of Bereishit so far, a number of people have had their names Continue Reading »

[Pardes from Jerusalem Podcast] VaYetze 5772

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Barer

Rav Meir discusses barrenness and infertility in the matriarchs in this week’s podcast: VeYetze 5772