Rabbi Mordechai Becher’s VLog – The Goring Ox and Jewish Philosophy – Parshat Mishpatim 5776
Rabbi Becher explains the connection between a socio-path ox and the oneness of G-d. View this video directly on Vimeo.
Rabbi Becher explains the connection between a socio-path ox and the oneness of G-d. View this video directly on Vimeo.
Last Shabbat we read the Ten Commandments in synagogue, and this coming week we will be reading the Parsha of Mishpatim, judgments, detailing many of the laws that govern commerce, society, business and human interactions. I believe that that there are some important lessons in this juxtaposition. The Ten Commandments were inscribed on two tablets….
Moses gets a new job in this week’s Torah portion – and it’s a surprising one. View this video directly on VIMEO
What happened just before the sea split to allow the Israelites to walk across? View this video directly on VIMEO
Now that we are in the month of Shevat I would like to continue my theme of the laws of the land of Israel. The seventh year of the agricultural cycle, is known as Shmittah, the Sabbatical year. In Israel, no new crops are planted and only maintenance work is done on crops and trees…
Why was Moses so angry when he left Pharaoh’s palace for the final time? View this video directly on VIMEO
This month, Shevat, is when we celebrate and mark the agricultural laws of the Land of Israel. Israel is a holy land and its agricultural products are considered holy, and therefore have special laws that apply to them. The most well-known is the obligation (Biblical when most Jews live in Israel, Rabbinic nowadays) to separate…
G-d tells Moses to tell Aaron to start the first 3 plagues by hitting the water and the ground. Why couldn’t Moses have done it? View this video directly on VIMEO
The Torah lists many of G-d’s names in the beginning of this parsha. Rabbi Mordechai Becher explains one of them. View this video directly on Vimeo.
This Shabbat we will be saying special prayers in the synagogue to announce and bless the new month in the following week. We do this because the concepts and lessons contained in the Jewish calendar are so central to our beliefs that it is necessary to teach and emphasize them regularly. The calendar is a…