Can redemption begin if we don’t yet believe we deserve it? In this episode, Zvi Hirschfield and Judy Klitzner explore Parshat Va’era at its lowest point, when redemption seems to move backward and hope feels out of reach. Through close…
Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Va’era
This week’s podcast is sponsored in memory of Dr. Jack Jaffe, Yaakov Zev ben Elchanon. Doctor, community leader, and fervent Zionist. Sponsored by his children, Ari and Marlyn, Reva and Sheldon, Leah and Simon, and Ezra and Marla, as well…
Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Va’era
How may we be redeemed when we feel as if our spirits have been crushed? Rabbi Leon Morris joins us this week to discuss the idea of kotzer ruach, a crushed soul, and how Moshe faced resistance from those who…
Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Va’era
The parsha opens with the names of God, and that sets the stage for the revelation which comes through the plagues. This podcast touches how this dynamic expresses a deeper layer in the whole relationship between Creator and creation as…
Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Va’era
This podcast is sponsored by Drs Amy Fox Griffel and Martin I Griffel in memory of her mother, Sally Fox, Sima Bat Moshe v Michla on the occasion of her yahrtzeit. Parashat Vaera 5782: The Hardening of Pharaoh’s Heart Description:…
Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Va’era
In this podcast, Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash looks at the mention of four women in chapter six and the midrashic narratives that intertwine these verses into larger Biblical narratives. Sources include Shemot 2:1, Shemot 6:15 Please let us know your…
Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Va’era
“And God Hardened Pharaoh’s Heart” – The question is well known: If God hardened Pharaoh’s heart, how is he culpable for withholding freedom from the Israelites? A person can only be held responsible for his actions if he is free.…
Educator resources, Meaning-making, Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Va’era
After the failure of Moshe’s mission to Pharaoh to free the Israelite slaves, God indicates that He will intervene forcefully. While He had appeared to the patriarchs and matriarchs employing the name El Shaddai, He will now make his name…
Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Va’era
While chapters 7-9 of parsha Va’era tell a miraculous tale of Divine redemption, chapter 6 highlights the Children of Israel’s role in their own enslavement and redemption. In doing so, it forces us to reexamine the binary between strong and…
Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Va’era
This week’s Interactive Parsha Experience is Sponsored by Michelle and JJ Berney in memory of Tomi Deutsch Berney z”l. In parshat VaEra God continues to speak to Moshe through the burning thornbush. God tells him the plan for how Moshe will…
Educator resources, Meaning-making, Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Va’era
This week, we shall address the topic of thankfulness and gratitude. This is a human virtue that emerges from one small disparity in the biblical text. At the start of the Plague of Blood, God sends Moses to warn Pharaoh:…
Educator resources, Meaning-making, Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Va’era
The Israelites didn’t find true faith in God overnight. As a result their exodus from Egypt took some time as well. Can our understanding of the virtue of patience combined with confidence help us find a path to regional peace?…
Podcast series, Pardes Parsha Podcast, Tanakh, Torah, Shemot (Exodus), Va’era
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