Tag: "Torah Study"

A Random Walk With Rashi: Adrift Without Punctuation

A Random Walk With Rashi: Adrift Without Punctuation

Love means never having to say you’re it, son.

Pop Parsha: Bond, Joseph Bond

Pop Parsha: Bond, Joseph Bond

The newest Bond film got me thinking about Joseph, Hanukkah, and family reunions.

A Random Walk With Rashi: Neither Here Nor There

A Random Walk With Rashi: Neither Here Nor There

Moriah-gate: What Did Abraham Know, and When Did He Know It ?

Meet Four Of The Twin Cities’ Newest Rabbis This Monday At Beth El

Meet Four Of The Twin Cities’ Newest Rabbis This Monday At Beth El

New learning should be the mission for all of us. In that light, join four of the Twin Cities’ newest rabbis for “Four Rabbis Enter an Orchard” on Monday December 3rd at Beth El.

A Random Walk With Rashi: Into The Fog Guided Only By Faith

A Random Walk With Rashi: Into The Fog Guided Only By Faith

Barreling down a biblical highway with only two outcomes to be had.

A Random Walk With Rashi: A Little Ewe Will Dew You

A Random Walk With Rashi: A Little Ewe Will Dew You

Closing the door on Chapter 21, and on pace to align our study of the Akedah with its reading on Rosh Hashanah – our own veritable transit of Venus.

(photo: Album Cover for Sunshine - Thirty Tigers/RED Records)

Pop Parsha – Has Pinchas Reached Matisyahu’s Sunshine?

I don’t know about you but I have a love/hate relationship with Matisiyahu…kind of the way I feel about Pinchas just with out the violence.

A Random Walk With Rashi: Careening Our Way Through Genesis May Be More Like It

A Random Walk With Rashi: Careening Our Way Through Genesis May Be More Like It

Join us as we leave Ishmael, and align our study group with the verses traditionally read on the High Holidays. Buckle up, place your biblical tray tables in their upright positions, and let’s begin!

Pop Parsha: (Shelach Lecha) “Send Forth” Snow White

Pop Parsha: (Shelach Lecha) “Send Forth” Snow White

In land far far away lived a princess by the name of Snow White. But even farther away lived Caleb and Joshua. Learn what they all have in common, in Pop Parsha.

A Random Walk With Rashi: On the Precipice of Pericope

A Random Walk With Rashi: On the Precipice of Pericope

“We pick things up where Hagar and her son Ishmael have been banished from Gerar, and have just plotzed from exhaustion in the desert,” begins Phil’s humorous summary of Rashi’s thoughts. Join him.

A Random Walk With Rashi: Ain’t Grammar Great?

A Random Walk With Rashi: Ain’t Grammar Great?

Our G-d who art in Hendiadys, Hapox Legonimen be thy name.

A Random Walk With Rashi: Hagar and the Wailers

A Random Walk With Rashi: Hagar and the Wailers

A Teleological Suspension of the Ethical (trust me).

A Random Walk With Rashi: Connecting the Dots

A Random Walk With Rashi: Connecting the Dots

From toi, toi, toi (kina hora) to Torah, Torah, Torah.

Abraham Casting Out Hagar and Ishmael, by Il Guercino

A Random Walk With Rashi: Wordlessly Watching

He ain’t heavy, he’s going to be the father of a great nation.

A Random Walk With Rashi – New Perennial Insights

A Random Walk With Rashi – New Perennial Insights

Up The Down Spiral Curriculum.

A Random Walk With Rashi –What Hammurabi Says, And All The More So

A Random Walk With Rashi –What Hammurabi Says, And All The More So

Anybody Want To Give This One a Pshat?

A Random Walk With Rashi – Sarah Seethes While Isaac Teethes

A Random Walk With Rashi – Sarah Seethes While Isaac Teethes

What Went On In That Biblical Shower? You Decide

A Random Walk With Rashi: Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!

A Random Walk With Rashi: Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!

Abraham and Sarah request the honor of your presence at a feast to celebrate the weaning of their son, Isaac. BYOB.

A Random Walk With Rashi: With Radical Amazement

A Random Walk With Rashi: With Radical Amazement

Join us as we reconvene and find Sarah in a shtik nachas.

A Random Walk With Rashi:  Goodfathers

A Random Walk With Rashi: Goodfathers

“Funny how? I mean, funny like I’m a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? How am I funny? Tell me. Tell me what’s funny.”

A Random Walk With Rashi:  You Run the Numbers

A Random Walk With Rashi: You Run the Numbers

Fred and Adele meet Fred and Ginger.