Rabbi Mordechai Wollenberg
Parashah of the week: Nitzavim-Vayelech
"You are standing here today, all of you... from the heads of tribes... to the woodcutters and water-drawers” Deuteronomy 29:9
Parashah of the week: Ekev
“It will come about that because you will listen to these commandments, keep them and perform them, the Lord, your God will keep for you the covenant and the kindness that He swore to your forefathers” Deuteronomy 7:12-13
Parashah of the week: Balak
God happened upon Balaam, who stated, ‘I have set up the seven altars and offered up a bull and a ram on each’” Numbers 23:4
Parashah of the week: Naso
“The one who brought his offering on the first day was Nachshon the son of Aminadav of the tribe of Judah” Numbers 7:12
Parashah of the week: Kedoshim
“You shall rise before a venerable person and you shall respect the elderly, and you shall fear your God. I am the Lord” Leviticus 19:32
Parashah of the week: Shemini
“Any animal that has a cloven hoof that is completely split into double hooves and which brings up its cud that one you may eat” Leviticus 11:4
Parashah of the week: Ki Tissa
“Each man shall give a pledge of atonement for his soul… this he shall give… a half-shekel coin” Exodus 30:11-13
Parashah of the week: Beshallach
He gave them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them” Exodus 15:25
Vayigash
“[Joseph] sent his brothers on their way, as they left, he said to them, ‘See that you do not become agitated on the way’” Genesis 45:24
Portion of the week: Toldot
“Isaac dwelt in Gerar… and he said, ‘She is my sister’…. And when he had been there a long time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines looked out at a window and saw Isaac sporting with Rebecca, his wife” Genesis 26:7-8
Parashah of the week: Bereshit
“Now the Lord God took the man, and He placed him in the Garden of Eden to work it and to guard it” Genesis 2:15
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