Category: Chumash Vayikra

(click here for print version) Bonding or Bondage Why Serve the Divine? ...

(click here for print version) One of the important rules in any educational process is to be in touch with where your students really are. During one particular class at Isralight, it became obvious that the topic we were studying was pushing someone...

(click here for print version) Dating the Divine Celebrating love ...

(click here for print version) An open road, on a beautiful day, your kids in the back seat, perhaps a packed picnic lunch; what could be more perfect? What thoughts go through your mind at such times? Is your mind focused on all the challenges tomorrow always seems to bring, or do you take the time to appreciate the moment? Are you listening to the news about a recent referendum vote, the country...

(click here for print version) Achieving Sacred Selfishness Happiness through holiness I had a student that once came into my office and said, "My father who passed away was an atheist and a fantastic human being. He was such a moral human being. He was such a good human being. I don't believe that had he been a believer, he would have been any better. He was the epitome of being a good person. So I have a problem with Torah because I really don't believe that it would have made a difference." So I told him that it isn't the goal of Torah to merely become a moral person. There is a lot more to it. Morality is important, but morality is a stage in the journey. The destination is holiness ...

(click here for print version) This week, in America, you will read the double portion of Acharei-Mot-Kedoshim which, translated literally, means ...

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(click here for print version) The Gift of the Given Moment A Passover Thought from the Portion of Tzav There are places in this world that are so powerful, so full of meaning that they allow us to tap in to why we are really here. Such a place is Emek HaBacha, The Valley of Tears. In this valley, deep in the Golan Heights, in the Yom Kippur War in 1973, a small group of men held off the might of the Syrian Armored Corps, and saved the State of Israel. There is a power to this place, and if you listen carefully to the wind howling through the hills, you can still hear the cries of the men who fell there. We took a group of our students there a few years ago on Israel...