Building a Sanctuary of Identity (Ki Tissa)
The beginning of this portion, Ki Tissa, starts with a census. God commands Moses to count the heads of the Children of Israel. This census…
When Will God Appear? (Vaera)
The past week has been a difficult one. In the span of a few days, terrorists killed 17 people in France. The four Jewish citizens at the kosher grocery store were buried in Israel for fear that their graves would be desecrated, yet another fearful sign of Europe’s growing anti-semitism. In Nigeria, two *thousand* people were killed because of hatred, and intolerance, a fact even more bothersome because it’s quite possible that many of you are hearing that for the first time right now. The world is in mourning.