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Sof Drashes 2025

Beginnings

Shir Ha Shirim Drash by Fran Margulies

May 2025

Why do we read a frankly erotic love song on a major Jewish religious holiday? Well, first, our holiday is about beginnings: 1) Our beginnings after being slaves to becoming… Continue reading

Parashot Tazaria-Metsora

Drash on May 3, 2025
Donald Armstrong

Forty-seven years ago, I married Sandy in a civil ceremony conducted by the Jewish Mayor of Highland Park, New Jersey. Eighteen years ago, we remarried, under the chuppah by Rabbi Marans… Continue reading

Sof Drashes 2024

From Folk Tales, History

January 2024

Parasha Miketz Drash by Robert J. Littman

The Torah is a sacred history of the Jewish people from the patriarch Abraham down through the death of Moses. It is a family history of the… Continue reading

Sof Drashes 2023

The Rest is Commentary

January 2023

Vayera Drash by Alexander Fellman

וַיְחַזֵּ֤ק יְהוָה֙ אֶת־לֵ֣ב פַּרְעֹ֔ה

But Hashem hardened pharaoh’s heart.

 

There is a concept among Christians called the unforgivable sin, the sin that God will never allow repentance for.… Continue reading

Sof Drashes 2022

Ki Tissa—Drash by Sid Goldstein

February 2022

Shabbat Shalom

Exodus 4 :10 

Moses said to the lord. “I have never been a man of words, either in times past or now. I am slow of speech and slow of… Continue reading

Sof Drashes 2021-2022

Shabbat HaGadol & Story

May 4, 2022

Drash by Reb Daniel Lev

According to the great scholar of the Jewish Time-Cycle, Reb Eliyahu KiTov,

For as long as the days of the Tanna’im and Amora’im, it has been customary in… Continue reading

Sof Drashes 2020 – 2021

Gut Yontif – Yom Kippur Drash

October 1, 2021

By Alex Golub

The High Holy Days are a time of teshuvah. Between the beginning of Rosh Hashanah and the end of Yom Kippur we hope to have improved. And yet,… Continue reading

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