Harry’s Video Blog – The Long Goodbye – Parshat Chukat 5783
Moses delivers a beautiful parting message to his beloved older brother Aaron. View this video directly on Vimeo
Moses delivers a beautiful parting message to his beloved older brother Aaron. View this video directly on Vimeo
Harry Rothenberg brings us “Story Time” from Eretz Yisrael: Will the prayer service ever end? View this video directly on Vimeo
Harry Rothenberg reminds us that it is so important to control our tempers. View this video directly on VIMEO
Rabbi Becher uses linguistics to connect “confusion” to “impurity” and “clarity” to “purity”. What does it all mean? View this video directly on Vimeo.
Now that the month of Tamuz is here, I believe it is an appropriate time to discuss belief, Emunah. An ideal place to start is Maimonides, who, writing in the 12th Century, was the first Jewish scholar to systematically list and explain the principles of Jewish belief. His “Thirteen Ikarim,” principles of faith, became the…
Harry Rothenberg reminds us that it is really important for the mourners to say Kaddish and it is really important for us to console them properly. View this video directly on VIMEO
I recently observed the Yarhzeits (yearly anniversary of the passing of a relative) of my parents of blessed memory. Unfortunately due to the current circumstances I was not able to say kaddish for them. Thank G-d in the last couple of weeks I have been able to attend a minyan again, albeit outdoors, socially separated…
No one suffers more from the lack of intellectual discourse and the enforcement of politically correct speech more than the Jews. View this video directly on Vimeo.
Why wasn’t Moshe allowed to enter the Promised Land? View this video directly on Vimeo
The Torah reading for this week begins with an intricate series of laws regarding purity, impurity and purification. This involved many details which appear to some to be, excessive, a complaint commonly heard about Jewish law in general. I would like to explain one idea behind all this detail: consistency. Consistency is much more difficult…