Somehow, not being rabbinic figure or a Talmud Chacham, it has always seemed difficult to put a true and deep meaning of Hashem’s creation to words to express the continuim of the end and the ...

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The parsha opens with: “This is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the Israelites farewell before he died” (Deut. 33:1). One of the Torah readings for Shmini Atzeret/Simchat Torah ...

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Our guest this week is Rabbi Brian Zimmerman of the Union for Reform Judaism. Rabbi Zimmerman, a 12th-generation rabbi, was ordained by the Hebrew Union college in NY in 1993 and served as the ...

Almost every tribal blessing/pronouncement in Zot Habracha stands independently, with a paragraph break preceding and following it. The pronouncement for Reuven (Deuteronomy 33:6) is an exception. A ...

In this week’s video, we close the entire Torah, and we ask ourselves, what lessons can we learn today? How can we be inspired by the Torah’s messages, and fulfill our destiny as a people? This video ...

Mekor Habracha members enjoy an event at the synagogue’s second-floor suite in a Walnut Street office building. (Courtesy of Mekor Habracha) It’s not a stand-alone building on a big property. It’s ...

With this week’s video, Rabbi Fohrman finishes the series of parsha videos by giving us a look at the Torah’s vision of what happens after the text of the Torah officially ends, and reminds us that we ...

Our special guest this week is Rabbi Mark Dratch, Executive Vice President of the Rabbinical Council of America. Prior to his position at the RCA, Rabbi Dratch was the founder and leader of JSafe, an ...