“Temper your justice with kindness” (love). Truth is the foundation of all things. However sometimes silence is the only path though the...

Perhaps it is a cliché, but Pesach is our festival of freedom. Freedom from slavery, freedom to practice the rites and rituals of the ...

The Seder Evening sinks slowly into the background and with it the phrase ''Pharaoh tried only to kill all the male children, but Laban...

“Are we there yet?!” Every summer my family would pack up our car and drive to summer camp, a Jewish camp set beside the beach in Malibu,...

One aspect of the Omer that we can easily overlook is that by requiring us to count and number every day, it reminds us of the objective...

The daily Omer of barley between Pesach and Shavuot was just one specific offering among the many sacrifices of animals, grains, fruits,...

Drasha Shemini Le livre du lévitique contient seulement deux récits, au milieu d’une mer de préceptes sacerdotaux. Le premier récit se...

The period between Pesach and Shavuot is known as the Omer. In ancient times, an omer, a measure of flour, was offered on each of these...

Between Pesach and Shavuot we count. Every evening we tick off the day that has just passed, and we label it – adding up the weeks and...

Discounting the Omer I don’t count the Omer. It is an irrelevant Mitzvah for me. It is not the only mitzvah that I do not keep. There...