Nitzavim

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Parshat Shavua 5783 with weekly guest speaker (Nitzavim_Vayelech)

Sarah Gordon

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Parshat Nitzavim: the Missing Moon

Rabbi Jay Kelman

It is customary that on the shabbat before a new month we "announce" its arrival with a prayer that the upcoming month be filled with the blessings of life. Yet strangely enough the rosh chodesh benching is omitted on the shabbat before Rosh…
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Parshat Shavua 5782 with weekly guest speaker (Nitzavim_Rosh Hashanah)

Miriam Krupka

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Nitzavim: What Do You Do?

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Rare is the person who measures his success by looking only at themselves, trying to determine how they can build on their strengths and improve on their weaknesses. Instead, we tend to compare ourselves to others, measuring ourselves…
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Parshat Shavua 5781 with weekly guest speaker (Parshat Nitzavim)

Rabbi Shlomo Gemara

Class

The Haftarot: How to Profit from the Prophets (Parshat Nitzavim)

Dr. Moshe Sokolow

Class

Nitzavim: Pass the Water

Rabbi Jay Kelman

"You are standing this day all of you before the Lord your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel: your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in the midst of the camp, from the…
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Nitzavim: Near and Dear

Rabbi Jay Kelman

One of the most vexing issues in Biblical interpretation is the relationship between pshat, loosely translated as the plain meaning of the Biblical text, and derash, the additional levels of interpretation that can be derived from that same text. At…
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Nitzavim: It's Great to Be a Jew!

Rabbi Jay Kelman

One often hears the lament that it is difficult to be a Jew. There are seemingly endless demands from morning to evening, 365 days a year, year in and year out. While being a good Jew requires constant effort—as does everything worthwhile…
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Nitzavim: Minding My Business

Rabbi Jay Kelman

“Lest there be a man or a women or a family or tribe...when they hear this curse, they will bless themselves, saying peace will be to me, and I will walk as my heart sees fit” (Devarim 29:28). How comfortable it must be to be able to ignore the…
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