This week’s Parshah is Noach, so named after its first character. It covers Genesis 6:9-11:32. There’s a fair amount in here: the flood, the rainbow, the vineyard, drunken Noah, nasty Ham, subservient but triumphant Shem and Japheth, Nimrod the mighty…
Well, that went pretty well. I was still making up my mind as I got to the shul, but I settled on Adam and Eve. As I was afraid, the conversation mostly went to the usual general topics (was the…
This week’s parshah is called B’reisheet (or Bereshith, or Bereshit, or what you will) because that’s the first word of the text, and it means ‘in the beginning’, and, you know, it’s the beginning. It’s also the name of the…
OK, here’s a new series of posts for this Tohu Bohu: The weekly parshah. For those who don’t know already, in the Jewish liturgy is a weekly portion of Torah reading. The Books of Moses, or the Humaish (five), are…
Well, and this week’s parsha is Beha’alotecha; for those Gentle Readers who missed services this morning for one reason or another, here’s a quick highlight. I’ll pick up at Numbers eleven, four, page 614 in your Hertz Chumash. See, the…