Category: Hukkat
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Hukkat-Balak 5783: “Transitions”
One of my favorite rabbinic jokes is particularly appropriate for a Shabbat such as this one. I first shared it publicly ten years ago, I shared it again a few weeks ago, and I’m going to…
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Hukkat 5777: “Universal Human Rights and Particular Jewish Goods”
There is a kind of magical thinking that emerges twice in our Torah portion and understanding the role and place of the magical, the paradoxical and inexplicable in the Torah, can help us correctly diagnose and evaluate some…
Rabbi David Wolkenfeld 