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Mar 12, 2023

Parashat Vayekhel-Pekudei: The Privilege of Consecration

This week's parashiot seem, at first glance, to be of no importance. They are sections that, depending on the year, are read together or...

Mar 6, 2023

Parashat Ki Tisa: A Need to Feel Leadership

Ki Tisa, the Torah portion we read this Shabbat contains one of the most dramatic events in all of Biblical narrative: the incident of...

Mar 1, 2023

A Message of Identity

When we move away from the people we usually spend time with and move from a house where we were living for a while sharing our lives...

Jan 30, 2023

What Makes a Holiday Important?

“There are four days in the year that serve as the New Year, each for a different purpose: On the first of Nisan is the New Year for...

Jan 28, 2023

Parashat Beshalach: Signs that God is Present

We arrived to one of those moments in Biblical narrative that are not only culminating, but special: the crossing of the sea of reeds,...

Jan 21, 2023

Parashat Bo: Choosing the Side of Good or Evil

We are at the end of the plague series. In our parasha we find the last 3 plagues: locusts, darkness and, of course, the worst of all,...

Jan 14, 2023

Parashat Vaera: Learning How to be Free

Sometimes it seems to us that our work is paying off, and it turns out that it is not. Sometimes it seems to us that we are failing in...

Jan 7, 2023

Parashat Shemot: The Leaders & Heroes of Judaism

Who are the leaders and heroes that our tradition gives us? We have seen countless times how our heroes are beings of flesh and blood,...

Dec 31, 2022

Parashat Vayechi: The Purity of Love Between Grandparents & Grandchildren

We are concluding the first book of the Torah, Genesis. If we take a step back and look in perspective, after the surprising and...

Dec 31, 2022

Chosen Messi

As I write this, some days ago Argentina became the world champion for the third time in the history of the World Cup of Football...

Dec 24, 2022

Parashat Vayigash: Hate Between Brothers

Sinat achim. Hate between brothers. The word hate is something strong. But so it is when siblings stop talking to each other. This week’s...

Dec 17, 2022

Parashat Miketz: Deception and Perception

We often say that appearances are deceiving. It is a well-known saying. And it is in the Torah above all. Through the different parashot...

Dec 10, 2022

Parashat Vayeshev: We Are Not Unique

It’s amazing how, in most cases, we need life or someone to shake us to react and change. We require an event, or strong words, or even...

Dec 3, 2022

Parashat Vayishlach: Running From Ourselves

What do we run from when we run? We do not always have the integrity, nor the wisdom, nor the strength to face those people or things...

Nov 30, 2022

My Pathway

We have known one another for more than a year now and I have never told you who I am or why I decided to be a Rabbi. I grew up in the...

Nov 26, 2022

Parashat Vayetze: Everything Has a Remedy

This parasha invites us to check a very special process: the one about how a complicated, intricate and twisted person in his...

Nov 19, 2022

Parashat Toldot: There are No Perfect Parents

וַֽיִּגְדְּלוּ֙ הַנְּעָרִ֔ים וַיְהִ֣י עֵשָׂ֗ו אִ֛ישׁ יֹדֵ֥עַ צַ֖יִד אִ֣ישׁ שָׂדֶ֑ה וְיַעֲקֹב֙ אִ֣ישׁ תָּ֔ם יֹשֵׁ֖ב אֹהָלִֽים׃ וַיֶּאֱהַ֥ב...

Nov 12, 2022

Parashat Chayei-Sarah: Looking Back at Our Life

The book of Melachim begins with the story of the old King David. An image that shows a king who can no longer rule his kingdom, nor his...

Nov 5, 2022

Parashat Vayera: We are All Little Avrahams & Sarahs

What an amazingly rich parasha! Rich in feelings, in challenges, in renunciations, in confrontations, in transgressions. It narrates the...

Oct 30, 2022

Is Judaism Pro-Choice?

Is Judaism “abortionist”? A question that may bother many. A sensitive issue that divides societies and, in American society, it seems to...

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