Rabbi Sherman - Honorable Mensch-ion

As we come to the concluding narrative of the Torah, through trials and tribulations, and with joy and gladness, we are told that our people are an am segula, a special and treasured nation. Each time we recite the blessing...

Our guest author this week is Rabbinic Intern Shawn Weiss, Ziegler Rabbinical School student and Alumni Fellow of the Flesh Family Sinai Temple Israel Center Rabbinical School Fellowship. How long is advice good for?  When Moses tells the Israelites in...

Our guest author this week is Rabbinic Intern Shawn Weiss, Ziegler Rabbinical School student and Alumni Fellow of the Flesh Family Sinai Temple Israel Center Rabbinical School Fellowship. Even Moses’s prayers sometimes go unanswered. When Moses prays to God in this...

Our guest author this week is Rabbinic Intern Shawn Weiss, Ziegler Rabbinical School student and Alumni Fellow of the Flesh Family Sinai Temple Israel Center Rabbinical School Fellowship. When is a story not just a story?  In this week’s parshah,...

Our guest author this week is Rabbinic Intern Shawn Weiss, Ziegler Rabbinical School student and Alumni Fellow of the Flesh Family Sinai Temple Israel Center Rabbinical School Fellowship. Gad and Reuben didn’t think of themselves as the first diaspora Jews. When...

Our guest author this week is Rabbinic Intern Shawn Weiss, Ziegler Rabbinical School student and Alumni Fellow of the Flesh Family Sinai Temple Israel Center Rabbinical School Fellowship. It’s hard to like Pinhas. At the end of last week’s parshah, Pinhas,...

Our guest author this week is Rabbinic Intern Shawn Weiss, Ziegler Rabbinical School student and Alumni Fellow of the Flesh Family Sinai Temple Israel Center Rabbinical School Fellowship. There is a verse in this week’s combined Torah portion of Hukkat-Balak...

When I asked my son why he was excited to attend Camp Ramah this summer, I expected the answers I desired. Perhaps it was the Judaic classes, the Maccabiah competition, or the spirited prayers they participate in each morning. Instead,...

A pious person once said, “We were given two eyes: one very powerful for introspection, so we should find out smaller faults; the other very weak, for viewing others. Only, too often, we switch their functions.” It is interesting to...

As the Jewish people journeyed through the desert, the Torah tells us they felt God’s presence from the clouds overhead. Malbim explains that the clouds did not disappear at night, but the clouds took on the appearance of fire. Throughout...