Two Minutes of Torah: Pekudei - Making Space

In the Kabbalistic story of creation there is a need for God to withdraw from Godself in a process known as tzimtzum .  To make space fo...

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Two Minutes of Torah: Ki Tissa - Doubt and Fear

In his inaugural address F.D.R. famously said "First of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fea...

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Two Minutes of Torah: Vayechi - Once a Hebrew, Always a Hebrew

I've now lived in America for the best part of eight years of the last ten.  And yet despite all of this time living on this side of t...

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Two Minutes of Torah: Ki Tavo - Individuals in Community

When I moved to the USA, one of the holidays that I had to get used to was Thanksgiving.  We had no equivalent back in England, and I reall...

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Two Minutes of Torah: Vaetchanan - Compassionate Punishment

In the movie Con Air - about a group of prisoners being transported on an airplane – at one point John Cusack’s character quotes Theodore D...

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Two Minutes of Torah: Matot-Masei - Responsibility for others

In one of my favorite scenes in the original Star Wars movie, and I’m sorry if I’m spoiling it for anyone, Han Solo returns to save Luke Sk...

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Two Minutes of Torah: Parashat Shelach Lecha - How we see ourselves

[This week's Two Minutes of Torah was featured as the World Union for Progressive Judaism's Torah from around the world] Whenever...

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TCS Bulletin - The ending of Torah?

As a child when I was learning to play the guitar (something I never really accomplished) one of the songs that I could play was ‘The Windm...

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