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Rabbi Jack Bieler
KMS is indeed fortunate to have as its Rabbi a distinguished
educator and scholar, Rabbi Jack Bieler. Rabbi Bieler
was raised in Bayside, Queens, and attended local public
schools. Following graduation from Yeshiva College and the James Striar
School for
Jewish Studies in 1969, he attended Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh in Israel
in 1969-71.
Rabbi Bieler then returned to Yeshiva University where he was ordained by
the Rabbi
Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and received an MA in Jewish Education
from the
Ferkauf Graduate School of Education in 1974. Following graduation from
Yeshiva,
Rabbi Bieler served on the faculty and was Chairman of the Talmud
Department of the
Joseph H. Lookstein Upper School of Ramaz from 1974-1988. During his tenure
at
Ramaz, he was awarded a Gruss Outstanding Educator award in 1984.
Concurrently,
Rabbi Bieler served on the faculty of the Adult Education Institute of the
Lincoln Square
Synagogue between 1971-1977, and as permanent scholar-in-residence of
Congregation
Kehilath Jeshurun from 1977-1988. In 1985, he received a Jerusalem Fellows
fellowship
and spent the year with his family in Jerusalem. In 1988, Rabbi Bieler
assumed the position of Lead Teacher and Chairman of the
Judaic Studies Department at the Hebrew Academy of Greater Washington,
now the Melvin J. Berman Hebrew
Academy in Rockville, MD. He became
the Upper School Assistant Principal in charge of Judaic Studies in 1991.
In 1993 he was
appointed as Rabbi of the Kemp Mill Synagogue. He has published numerous
articles on Jewish education and
on issues facing Judaism today, especially concerning
Modern Orthodoxy. Below are:
- one
of his recent articles of Jewish education,
- a Dvar
Torah on Pesach,
- a Dvar Torah from the Summer 2002 issue of Kol
Mevaser, on Crisis Management,
- and a Dvar Torah for Rosh Hashanah from the
September 2002 issue of Kol
Mevaser on Simanim for
a good year.
- a Dvar Torah from the November/December (Chanukah) 2002
issue of Kol Mevaser on Lighting
Up.
- a Dvar Torah from
Shabbat Mishpatim, 5762.
- Audio lectures from a class on the philosophy of Rav Kook
(wma format). Warning: these files are large, about 7MB each.
- Modern
Orthodox Jewish Day Schools and Non-Jews,
- "Preserving Modern Orthodoxy in our Day
Schools", from Edah, Monograph Series, Number 2.
Jewish Year 5763
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat Korach,
5763: "A Gift of Dignity" (MS Word format).
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat Matot-Masai,
5763: "The Relationship between What I Say and What I Do"
(MS Word format).
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Devarim, 5763: "Multiple Possibilities"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Va'etchanan 5763: "Seeing Judaism through the Eyes of Others"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Eikev 5763: "Moshe's Expectations for his Biological
and Spiritual Descendents"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Re'eh 5763: "Mitzva "+"'s and "-"'s"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Shoftim 5763: "Spiritual Wholeness"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Ki Tetze 5763: "Winning Hearts and Minds"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Ki Tavo 5763: "A Disconcerting Divine Emotion"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Nitzavim/Vayelech 5763: "Decoding a Tora Cipher"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Ha'azinu 5763: "Poetry Not Only as Aesthetic Experience,
but also as Divine Challenge"
- Thinking About Ellul,
thoughts for the season of repentance, 5763-64
- Becoming Fluent in Shofar-ese,
another thought for the season of repentance, 5763-64
- Thirteen Keys to Repentance,
thoughts for the season of slichot, 5763-64
Jewish Year 5764
- Can One be Haunted by His/Her
Future?, a Dvar Torah for Rosh HaShana, 5764
- Using Kohelet to Inform our
Happiness, a Dvar Torah for Sukkot, 5764
- Thoughts Upon Stepping
Up to the Tora, a Dvar Torah for Simchat Tora,
5764
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Breishit, 5764: "The Perils of the Number One Son"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Noach, 5764: "Stealth Tora Teachers"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Lech Lecha, 5764: "Avraham, the Blessing"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
VaYera, 5764: "Avraham, the Gadfly"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Chayei Sara, 5764: "Avraham, Father of Multitudes"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Chayei Sara, 5764: "Struggling to Be a Multi-Faceted
Community"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Toldot, 5764: "Free Agents or Automatons?"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
VaYetze, 5764: "What's in a Name?"
- An essay on educating children in
Sefer Beraishit, Shabbat VaYetze, 5764
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
VaYishlach, 5764: "Stretching the Truth: Sometimes It Bends,
Sometimes It Breaks"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
VaYeshev (Shabbat Chanukah I), 5764: "The Mating Game"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Mikketz (Shabbat Chanukah II), 5764: "It All Depends Upon How
You Look at It"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
VaYigash, 5764: "Was Yosef's Economic Policy Also a Social
Policy?"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
VaYechi, 5764: "Yaakov's Leger de Main"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Shemot, 5764: "The Exceedingly Humble Prophet"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
VaEira, 5764: "Irreligious Fearers of God"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Bo, 5764: "Pharoah Looks for a Blessing"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
BeShalach, 5764: "What Have You Done for Me Lately?"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Yitro, 5764: "Human Emotions and the Worship of God"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Mishpatim, 5764: "Sealing the Deal"
- Small Children Learning to Be Pray-ers,
an article from Sh'ma, February 5764
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Teruma, 5764: "Duties of the Heart"
- Another Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Teruma, 5764: "Different Forms of Passion"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Zachor, 5764: "Remembering Amalek Constructively
and Meaningfully"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Ki Tisa, 5764: "Artistic Talents as Divine Gifts"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
VaYakhel-Pekudei, 5764: "The Renaissance Man as a
Religious Ideal"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
VaYikra, 5764: "Competing Visions of the Purpose of
Korbanot"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Tzav (Shabbat Hagadol), 5764: "The Olah Sacrifice: The
Exception or the Rule?"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Chol HaMoed Pesach, 5764: "Shir HaShirim in Light of
Shabbat and Yom Tov"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Shmini, 5764: "Aharon's Reversals of Fortune and Unflagging
Courage"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Tazria-Metzora, 5764: "Tzara'at and the Book of Job"
- Dvar Torah for Yom
HaAtzmaut, 5764: "The State of Israel-Reishit Tzimichat
Geulatainu"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Acharei-Kedoshim, 5764: "Assuring Jewish Uniqueness"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Emor, 5764: "Striving to Create a Climate of Respect"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Behar-Bechukotai, 5764: "The Most Subtle Form of Oppression"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Bamidbar 5764: "To Be an Honorary Levite or a Firstborn? --
That is the Question!"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Naso 5764: "Divine Assessment of the Tabernacle"
- Dvar Torah on the
17-year cicadas, May, 2004 (Sivan, 5764)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Beha'alotcha 5764: "The 7 Books of Moses?"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Shelach 5764: "Kalev's Shining Hour"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Korach 5764: "The Disappearing Act of Ohn ben Peles"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Chukat 5764: "Being Sorely Challenged to Keep the Faith"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Balak 5764: "Bila'am as "Darth Vader""
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Pinchas 5764: "Now You See Them and Now You Don't"
- Dvar Torah for the 3 Weeks
before Tisha B'Av, 5764
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Matot-Masei 5764: "High Priests and Accidental Murderers"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Devarim 5764: "But We and Our Parents have Sinned"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Va'Etchanan 5764: "What Is "The Just and the Good in
HaShem's Eyes"?"
- Another Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Va'Etchanan 5764: "Thinking about Life through the
Lens of the Shema"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Eikev 5764: "Commanding Us to Acknowledge the Goodness of HaShem"<
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Re'eh 5764: "What Is "The Just and the Good in
HaShem's Eyes"? (Part II)"
- Another Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Re'eh 5764: "Healing the Body, the Soul, and the Community"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Shoftim 5764: "Learning Lessons from Non-Jewish Society"
- Another Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Shoftim 5764: "Weighing and Being Weighed on the Scales
of Justice"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Ki Tetze 5764: "Remembering and Taking to Heart the Story
of Miriam"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Ki Tavo 5764: "The Tora's Time Warp"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Nitzavim-VaYelech 5764: "Justifying Transgressions Past
and Present"
Jewish Year 5765
- Dvar Torah from Rosh
Hashanah 5765: "Insuring a Happy New Year"
- Dvar Torah from Yom
Kippur 5765: "Kiddush HaShem?"
- Dvar Torah from Sukkot
5765: "A Mysterious Prayer for Salvation"
- Another Dvar Torah from Sukkot
5765: "Exercising Good Taste"
- Dvar Torah from Shmini
Atzeret 5765: "The Soul of the Matter"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Lech Lecha 5765: "Avraham: Proactive Monotheist"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
VaYera 5765: "You Can Take Her Out of Sodom"
- Another Dvar Torah from
ShabbatVaYera 5765: "Translations as Interpretations"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Chayei Sara 5765: "A Young Girl Who Certainly Knows Her
Mind"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Toldot 5765: "Transmitting Tora to One and All"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
VaYetze 5765: "Holy Places as Resources for Leading
Spiritual Lives"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
VaYishlach 5765: "Adolescent Risky Behavior: Biblical and
Contemporary Challenges"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
VaYeshev 5765: "A Powerful Adolescent Commitment to
Righteousness"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
VaYigash 5765: "Goshen as Part of Yosef's Master Plan"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
VaYechi, 5765: "Yosef's Post-Adolescent Righteousness
is Met with Parental Skepticism"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Shemot, 5765: "Coming of Age and Searching for Oneself"
- Another Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Shemot, 5765: "Tora Reflections on Tsunamis, New Years and
the Human Condition"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
VaEira, 5765: "Bolstering One's Spirits by Studying"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Bo, 5765: "Does It Take a Miracle to See a Former Enemy in
a Favorable Light?"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
BeShalach, 5765: "Testing in the Desert"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Yitro, 5765: "The Coda of the Ten Commandments"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Mishpatim, 5765: "Parashat Mishpatim's Relationship to What
Comes Before"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Teruma, 5765: "An Aggadic Example of `Destroying in Order
to Repair'"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Tetzave, 5765: "Humility as a Key to Holiness"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Ki Tisa, 5765: "Broken Tablets: Embarrassment or
Inspiration?"
- Dvar Torah on the occasion
of the end of the Daf Yomi cycle, March 2005: "The Play's
the Thing!"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Pekudei/Shekalim, 5765: "Planetary Simcha"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Vayikra/Zachor, 5765: "Lessons of Beraishit 4 for Vayikra 1"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Tzav (Shushan Purim), 5765: "Kohen Gadol as Divine Medium"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Shmini/Parah, 5765: "Being Able to Tell the Difference"
- A "Torah U'Madda
Autobiography", written for the 75th anniversary of
Yeshiva College.
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Metzora, 5765: "Shaving One's Hair: Purification and
Reconnection"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Acharei Mot (Shabbat Hagadol), 5765: "A Yom Kippur Lottery
and a Pesach Parallel"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Shevi'i shel Pesach, 5765: "Lovesickness"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Kedoshim, 5765: "Connecting Beginnings and Endings"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Emor, 5765: "The Sacrificial Service as a Paradigm"
- Dvar Torah from Yom
Haatzmaut, 5765: "The Menora in Parshat Emor
and as the Emblem of the State of Israel"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Behar, 5765: "Crises of Faith for Only the Farmer?"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Bechukotai, 5765: "Developing a Fear of HaShem"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Bamidbar, 5765: "Nachshon, Prince among Princes?"
- Dvar Torah for Yom
Yerushalayim (28 Iyar), 5765: "The 3rd Blessing of Birkat
Hamazon and Yom Yerushalayim"
- Dvar Torah for
Shavuot, 5765: "Conversion and Sinai"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Behaalotcha, 5765: "I've Looked at Clouds from Both Sides
Now" (Joni Mitchell)
- The
Challenges With Regard To Shabbat Observance
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Shelach, 5765: "The Mysterious Case of the Shabbat
Wood-Gatherer"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Korach, 5765: "Moshe at a Loss for Words?"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Chukat, 5765: "A Sibling Rivalry that Refuses to be Put to
Rest"
- A special Dvar Torah concerning
the terrorist bombing in London: "9/11, 7/7, 121"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Balak, 5765: "Divine Entrapment?"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Pinchas, 5765: "A Peace Prize for a Zealot?"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Matot, 5765: "Moshe Begins to Take a Back Seat"
- A special Dvar Torah concerning
Jewish unity in difficult times
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Masei, 5765: "A Tora Travelogue"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Devarim, 5765: "Tisha B'Av's Parshiot"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
VaEtchanan, 5765: "The Roots of Repentance"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Eikev, 5765: "The Interplay between Singularity and Plurality"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Reeh, 5765: "The Holiness of Blood"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Shoftim, 5765: "Forcing an Entire City to Engage in
Introspection"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Ki Tetze, 5765: "Taking into Account Animals' Feelings"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Ki Tavo, 5765: "Blessings and Curses"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Nitzavim, 5765: "Will We as a People Ever Truly Repent?"
Jewish Year 5766
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Breishit, 5766: "The First Penitent?"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Noach, 5766: "A Paradigm Shift in the Understanding of
Human Nature"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Lech Lecha, 5766: "Avraham and his Friends"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
VaYera, 5766: "Seeking a God-Fearing Society"
- Dvar Torah on the occasion of the
rededication of the Berg Sefer Torah, 5766
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Chayei Sara, 5766: "Yishmael Comes Around"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Toldot, 5766: "Gastronomic Reflections Concerning Yitzchak
and Eisav"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Vayetze, 5766: "Stealing Hearts and Minds"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Vayishlach, 5766: "Devora: A Messenger Ignored in Life,
but Mourned in Death?"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Vayeshev, 5766: "What Might They have been Thinking?"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Miketz, 5766: "Yosef's Egyptian Makeover"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Vayigash, 5766: "Yosef Plays Pharoah"
- Another Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Vayigash, 5766: "Yaakov's Unguarded Moment?"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Vayechi, 5766: "Diplomacy and Yaakov's Final Resting Place"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Shemot, 5766: "A Task for a "Master of Humility"?"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
VaEira, 5766: "Pharoah's Hardened Heart and the Plague of
Hail"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Beshalach, 5766: "Spiritual Slavery as a Virtue"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Yitro, 5766: "A Blessing from Without"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Mishpatim, 5766: "Prohibiting Aggression against Parents"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Teruma, 5766: "Shouldering the Burden of the Tabernacle"
- An editorial on Jewish
education: "Day Schools as Moral Thermostats"
- Another Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Teruma, 5766: "Putting the ! into Mitzvot"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Tetzave, 5766: "A Favorite Tabernacle Artifact"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Ki Tisa, 5766: "To Look or Not to Look?"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Vayakhel(-Pekudei-Hachodesh), 5766: "39 Chief Melachot"
- "A
Light to the Nations", an article from
Tradition
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Vayikra, 5766: "Offering Up One's Soul"
- Another Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Vayikra, 5766: "The Fire from Within"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Tzav (Shabbat Hagadol), 5766: "Thanks but No Thanks!"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Shmini, 5766: "Who Authored Birkat Kohanim?"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Tazria-Metzora, 5766: "Tzora'at's Silver Lining?"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Acharei-Kedoshim, 5766: "A Most Holy Refrain"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Emor, 5766: "Shabbat as Part of Judaism's Overall Dialectic"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Behar-Bechukotai, 5766: "A Tora View of Property"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Bamidbar, 5766: "A Lack of Respect in So Many Ways"
- Dvar Torah from Chag
Shavuot, 5766: "Tora Study for All: Pie-in-the-Sky?"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Naso, 5766: "Parents and Teachers as Quasi-Kohanim?"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Beha'alotcha, 5766: "The Allure of Pesach"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Shelach, 5766: "Achieving Divine Forgiveness via God's
Own Words"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Korach, 5766: "What could the 250 have been Thinking?"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Chukat-Balak, 5766: "Lessons of the Nachash Nechoshet
(Copper Snake)"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Pinchas, 5766: "So What Did He Really Do?"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Matot-Masei, 5766: "Trying to Be Above Suspicion"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Devarim (Chazon), 5766: "Getting the Story Straight"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Va'etchanan (Nachamu), 5766: "Hitting the Rock:
An Example of the Blame Game?"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Eikev, 5766: "Paternalistic Parenting in the Desert"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Re'eh, 5766: "Rescinding Loans, Respect and Self-Respect"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Shoftim, 5766: "Warfare, Trees and People"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Ki Tetze, 5766: "Paying One's Employees on Time"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Ki Tavo, 5766: ""Tochechot" and the Lessons of Jewish
History"
Jewish Year 5767
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
VaYigash, 5767: "A `Big Idea'"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
VaYechi, 5767: "Blessing our children" (audio file, MP3
format, ~13MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Shemot, 5767: "The relationship between Avraham,
Moshe and Esther" (audio file, MP3 format, ~7MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Vaera, 5767: "The importance of time"
(audio file, MP3 format, ~13MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Bo, 5767: "The mechanisms of the plagues"
(audio file, MP3 format, ~20MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
BeShalach, 5767: "The complaints of the Jewish people"
(audio file, MP3 format, ~14MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Yitro, 5767: "Yirat Hashem"
(audio file, MP3 format, ~13MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Mishpatim (Shekalim), 5767: "The problem of slavery"
(audio file, MP3 format, ~19MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Teruma, 5767: "See and make!"
(audio file, MP3 format, ~28MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Tetzave (Zachor), 5767: "Aharon: From Golden Calf to High Priest"
(audio file, MP3 format, ~25MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Ki Tisa (Parah), 5767: "Moshe's Reaction to the Golden Calf"
(audio file, MP3 format, ~23MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Vayakhel-Pekudei (Hachodesh), 5767: "Netilat Yadayim and its
Tabernacle Sources" (audio file, MP3 format, ~26MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
VaYikra, 5767: "The guilt offerings for stolen property or failure
to testify" (audio file, MP3 format, ~31MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Tzav (Shabbat Hagadol), 5767: "The law of the sin offering"
(audio file, MP3 format, ~21MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Shmini, 5767: "Making yourselves holy"
(audio file, MP3 format, ~7MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Tazria-Metzora, 5767: "Separation from, and rejoining, society"
(audio file, MP3 format, ~19MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Acharei Mot-Kedoshim, 5767: "The sin of the sons of Aaron"
(audio file, MP3 format, ~21MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Emor, 5767: "The tale of the blasphemer"
(audio file, MP3 format, ~20MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Behar-Bechukotai, 5767: "The warning and the concept of `keri'"
(audio file, MP3 format, ~20MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Bamidbar, 5767: "The place and role of the children of Kehat"
(audio file, MP3 format, ~23MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Naso, 5767: "The law of the Sotah"
(audio file, MP3 format, ~19MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Behaalotcha, 5767: "The silver trumpets"
(audio file, MP3 format, ~20MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Shelach, 5767: "The instructions to the spies"
(audio file, MP3 format, ~23MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Korach, 5767: "Moshe's reaction to the insurrection"
(audio file, MP3 format, ~33MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Chukat, 5767: "Making vows" (audio file, MP3 format, ~23MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Balak, 5767: "A Nation that dwells alone" (audio file, MP3 format, ~23MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Pinchas, 5767: "Moses preparing for transition"
(audio file, MP3 format, ~20MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Matot-Masei, 5767: "Annulling vows" (audio file, MP3 format, ~12MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Devarim (Chazon), 5767: "Why did God really prevent Moshe
from entering the Promised Land?" (audio file, MP3 format, ~15MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Vaetchanan (Nachamu), 5767: "For your sake"
(audio file, MP3 format, ~15MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Eikev, 5767: "Learning from history"
(audio file, MP3 format, ~19MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Re'eh, 5767: "Making choices" (audio file, MP3 format, ~16MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Shoftim, 5767: "Repentance and Forgiveness"
- Another Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Shoftim, 5767: "Righteousness, righteousness" (audio file, MP3 format, ~22MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Ki Tetzei, 5767: "Why are so many laws repeated in
Deuteronomy?" (audio file, MP3 format, ~16MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Ki Tavo, 5767: "Reviewing Jewish history in reference
to the land of milk and honey" (audio file, MP3 format, ~23MB)
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat
Nitzavim-Vayelech, 5767: "Repairing our
hearts" (audio file, MP3 format, ~19MB)
Jewish Year 5768
- "A
vision of a modern orthodox Jewish eduction"
- For links to some other papers, see here. For
copyright reasons, you need to obtain a username and password from
Shiri Swissa at the Mandel Leadership Institute (shiris@mli.org.il) to access
these other resources and the full site.
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat Behar, 5768:
"It Might not Matter What I Call a Rose"
- Dvar
Torah from Shabbat Bamidbar, 5768: "Spiritual Lessons of the
Desert"
- Dvar Torah from Shavuot,
5768: "Yom Hakahal: One day per year, or every day?"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat Korach, 5768:
"The Nature of Kehilla (Community)"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat Masei, 5768:
"Don't Let Things Get Old"
- Dvar Torah from Shabbat Chazon, 5768:
"Sometimes, Tora Study is not an Option"
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