Imagination!
Blessings are great, but curses, well no one wants to hear those. This weeks Parsha sets out the blessings that will occur when we do the Will of our Creator, and Chas Ve Shalom the curses that will occur if…
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is!
I was watching closely as two of my students raged in a debate. It looked as if it was starting to get personal and eventually one of them yelled out ‘put your money where your mouth is!”. Interesting I thought,…
Don’t Abuse
This week’s parasha discusses a prohibition common to business and speech: “When you sell an item to your friend, or you buy from your friend, do not exploit (overcharge or underpay) one another” (Behar 25:14). The Torah commands both the…
Parasha Insights
Imagine if you were to introduce someone to the concept of Mitzvot for the first time. Would you tell them about a Mitzvah that has no reasoning or understanding, or rather tell them about the beauty of Shabbat or the…
Warriors of 2015
Working for a livelihood has never been so hard. Not physically, but mentally draining, due mainly to the influx of technology that beckons our everyday life. Business is tough and competition ripe. How should we view our competitors and how…
What’s in a Name?
The first of this week’s double portion is called Behar. Meaning “at the mountain”, it refers to Har Sinai, the mountain characterised for its transparent humility, where we received the Torah. Immediately after Hashem’s awesome revelation at Sinai, Moshe climbed…
