Parasha

We can let trauma define those spaces forever. Or we can redefine them with blessing, with building, with defiant acts of goodness. This is the Jewish way.

It’s important to teach your children the importance of saving. I think that teens should have a bank account. They can learn how compound interest works.

King David’s final words are not a farewell. They are a summons. A summons to responsibility, to faith and to moral resolve.

What Joseph teaches Israeli society today

Experiences that could refine us and mature us are processed too quickly to leave a lasting imprint. Instead of being transformed by life, we merely skim it.

A significant expression of their differing worldviews appears in their attitudes toward wealth – a perspective that influences all aspects of life.

If Israel, like Jacob, holds fast to its mission – even in exile, even in danger, even in darkness – then the promise of Hosea still stands.

If the parasha is a saga of inheritance, of blessings fought over and destinies forged, then the haftarah is its echo, reminding us that a spiritual legacy must not merely be received, but upheld.

Politics, the haftarah reminds us, is not inherently corrupt. It becomes corrupt when it forgets that leadership is service, not self-promotion.

Until our people are gathered and the land is restored, we remain wanderers yearning for wholeness.