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Defeating Sea Dragons
Trumah Drash by Jonathon Lyon
Good morning, and Shabbat Shalom. Over the years going through the Torah-reading cycle, I’ve always wondered: why all this attention to the building of a mobile dwelling place for God in such excruciating detail? … Continue reading
Moses and Middle Management
Drash On Parsha Shemot by Sid Goldstein
Shabbat Shalom.
What is middle management?
Dr. Alexander Keene, a professor from the Wharton School of Business defines it in his book The Middle Manager as, “The most thankless task of any… 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
Terror and Relief
Vayigash Drash by Marc Flitter
Despite Abraham Joshua Heschel’s portrayal of Judaism as being a religion of deeds in contrast to Christianity characterized as a religion of faith, we do have the enumeration of 13 principles of faith formulated by… 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
In the Image of Jacob
Parashat Vayishlach Drash by Rabbi Ken Aronowitz
January 4, 2024
I was working with a Bar Mitzvah student years ago and was surprised to see that his Devar Torah consisted entirely of a series of questions. After thinking about Abraham… 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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