Rabbi Benji Stanley
Parashah of the week: Nitzavim
“Then the Eternal, your Ultimate will circumcise your heart and the hearts of your offspring — to love the Eternal, your Ultimate with all your heart and soul, in order that you may live” Deuteronomy 30:6
Parashah of the week: Ekev
“For the Lord your God is God supreme and Lord supreme, the great, the mighty and the awesome God” Deuteronomy 10.17
Parashah of the week: Balak
“The Ultimate came to Bala’am and asked, ‘Who are these people with you?’” Numbers 22:9
Parashah of the week: Naso
“May the Eternal raise His face to you, and give you peace” Numbers 6:27
Parashah of the week: Kedoshim
“Do not go about as a tale-bearer among your people. Do not stand on the blood of your fellow: I am the Eternal” Leviticus 19.16
Parashah of the week: Tazria
“Speak to the Israelite people thus: when a woman at childbirth brings forth seed and bears a male, she shall be impure seven days; she shall be impure as at the time of her condition of menstrual separation” Leviticus 12:1-2
Parashah of the week: Vayakhel
“Moses communed all the congregation of the people of Israel and said to them, ‘these are the things that the Eternal has commanded you to do’” Exodus 35:1
Parashah of the week: Yitro
“Moses’s father in law said to him, ‘It’s not good the thing you are doing… You are not able to do it alone’” Exodus 18.7-18
Vayechi
“When the time approached for Israel to die, he summoned his son Joseph to him” Genesis 47.29.
Vayetze
“[Jacob] came upon a certain place and stopped there for the night, for the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of that place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place” Genesis 28:11
Noach
“Noah sent the raven and it went out and back forth until the waters dried upon the land” Genesis 8:7
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