Category: Miketz
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Miketz 5786: When Were We Commanded?
Sometimes the words we say most frequently are the words we understand least well. How many times this week have you said the phrase “Asher Kidshanu B’Mitzvotav v’Tzivanu…”? I hope many of us have said it…
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Miketz 5783: “Between Persecution and Salvation”
I’ve told you before about the Christian family we met when we lived in Jerusalem fifteen years ago. They practiced a very austere form of Protestant Christianity which attempted to purify Christianity from what they saw…
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Miketz 5782: “Holy Ground”
My elementary school assemblies and concerts took place in the auditorium of the Ethical Culture Society of New York, Ethical Culture is a national movement for secular humanism, founded in the 19th century by Felix Adler…
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Miketz 5778: “In History God Casts a Vote”
Many years ago, when I was a college student spending Hannukah at my mother’s apartment, we gathered ogether with some of her closest friends to light candles. One of them, who could have been an Upper…
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Miketz 5777: “Hasidic Tales of Jewish Psychoanalysts”
There is a book that I’d like to write one day. It will be called “Hasidic Tales of Jewish Psychoanalysts” and the first story would be the account of Freud’s analysis of the second Lubavitcher Rebbe.…
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Miketz 5775: “On the Interpretation of Dreams”
A good Hassidic story ends with a pithy punch-line that exposes some profound wisdom regarding the human condition. I’m going to begin this morning by sharing a Hassidic tale with you, but not a story about a great…
Rabbi David Wolkenfeld 