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Our shul book club recently discussed one of the seminal works of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z”l,
To Heal a Fractured World. While we were only virtually in the same room, I could feel the inspiration during our discussion to truly live Rabbi Sacks’ teachings of responsibility to our community and to our world. Rabbi Sacks introduces his book by saying, “we are here to make a difference, to mend the fractures of the world, a day at a time, an act at a time, for as long as it takes to make it a place of justice and compassion where the lonely are not alone, the poor not without help; where the cry of the vulnerable is heeded and those who are wronge
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There are certain books that have served as the lynchpin of any Jewish library; a siddur and the Talmud are of course among them but, until now, generations of Torah commentaries have only been available in multiple volumes and many are yet to be translated into English. Indeed, the most common anthology of commentaries, the classic Mikraot Gedolot, provides commentaries only of the Medieval Period (Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Rashbam, Ralbag Seforno, etc.) â just a small slice of the corpus of Jewish commentators and require a certain level of analytical skill to full grasp. But now The Koren Mikraot HaDorot offers a broader scope of the commentaries spanning 2,000 years from the ancient times to modernity with an innovative layout and all new translation.
parashah of
Bâreyshit, the Book of Genesis. Our Torah Reading is
Va-yâchi, Genesis 47:28-50:26, which depicts the ends of the lives of both our Patriarch Jacob/Israel, and also his son Joseph. The haftarah for this Shabbat is 1 Kings 2:1-12, the deathbed charge of King David to his son and successor, Solomon, and the death of the aged monarch.
The Torah portion opens with the words: âJacob lived 17 years in the land of Egypt, and his lifespan was 147 years. So the time for Israel to die approached, and he called for his son Joseph. He said to him, âIf I have found favor with you, place your hand under my thigh [and swear to me], that you will treat me with