Bereishit - Noah
Most of this week’s Torah drashot will be about Noah - because it’s parashat Noah - and because Noah’s Ark is a majestic, iconic story...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Nov 22, 2023
- 3 min
Devarim - Nitzavim
We are at an awesome time of year, the shabbat before Rosh Hashana, where all of a sudden, Ellul - our month of preparation - has slipped...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Nov 22, 2023
- 3 min
Bereishit - Miketz
Yosef, Moshe and Chanukah In the thick of the Torah’s longest story, the Yosef story, there are moments of deja vu where we’d be forgiven...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Nov 22, 2023
- 2 min
Bemidbar - Mattot & Massai
The ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus' paradox, is a thought experiment that raises the question of whether an object (like a ship)...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Nov 22, 2023
- 2 min
Bereishit - Lech Lecha
Towards the end of this week’s parasha, almost forgotten between God’s epic “lech lecha” call to Avram, and the chilling “brit bein...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Nov 22, 2023
- 4 min
Bemidbar - Korach
If I say the word “duckhouse” the adult Brits in the room know instantly what I’m talking about! We’ve had some quite entertaining...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Nov 22, 2023
- 2 min
Shmot - Ki Tisa
Ki Tisa: The God of second chances I once had a colleague who used to say “I believe in the God of second chances”. If ever there was a...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Nov 22, 2023
- 2 min
Devarim - Ki Tavo
This parasha was one of the first Jewish texts to come into my life - in the form of my bat mitzvah sedra. In my 1998 (indeed!) dvar...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Nov 22, 2023
- 8 min
Vayikra - Kedoshim
I was 17 when my best friend told me he was gay. At the time it was a shock - I’d never (at least as far as I knew at the time) known a...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Nov 22, 2023
- 2 min
Ekev
The Amida, our most iconic tefillah, known as simply “the prayer” opens with the following words: “Blessed are You, Hashem, Our God and...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Nov 22, 2023
- 2 min
Devarim - Devarim
We have arrived at the book of Devarim, literally “words”. Moshe, the man who we noted in parashat Chukat said לֹא אִישׁ דְּבָרִים...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Nov 22, 2023
- 3 min
Bemidbar - Chukat
It’s not always easy to find the right words. Sometimes it’s easier not to pick up the phone, or avoid a conversation. If you can relate...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Nov 22, 2023
- 4 min
Bereishit - Chayei Sarah
I’m sure we’ve all come across clickbait headlines like “The 2 most shocking rules the royal family has to keep”. I followed one of these...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Nov 22, 2023
- 3 min
Shmot - Bo
The P word - skipping or shielding? Is it too early to say the P word? It’s hard not to think about it in these weeks of reading the...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Nov 22, 2023
- 3 min
Shmot - Beshallach
The choir practice and the packing list It’s Shabbat Shira - the parasha in which we read the Song of the Sea, Shirat HaYam - sung first...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Nov 22, 2023
- 2 min
Bereishit - Bereishit
There’s a thrill in writing about parashat Bereishit. We may have read it dozens of times before, but the epic words with which our...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Nov 22, 2023
- 2 min
Bemidbar - Bemidbar
Welcome to the book of Bemidbar, the story of the first wanderings in the desert of our wandering people. It’s a dark book with an...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Nov 22, 2023
- 3 min
Vayikra - Behar
Behar presents us with the Torah’s radical vision for society, which isn’t capitalism or socialism, but is a utopian vision of its own:...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Nov 22, 2023
- 3 min
Vayikra - Acharei Mot
I don’t know about your household, but there’s a certain time in the year which is “too soon” to talk about the Chagim. The Torah has no...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Nov 22, 2023
- 3 min
Bereishit Toldot
Parashat Toldot Divar Torah by Miriam Lorie - 24th November 2022 Our parasha is named Toldot, and begins with the words וְאֵלֶּה...
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