Category: Terumah
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Terumah 5784: “The Place Where People Seek the Highest”
A few weeks ago I attended the Shepherd Park Citizens’ Association potluck gathering. The event took place just up the road at the Washington Ethical Society and the room where we ate is the same meeting…
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Terumah 5782: “The Wandering Jew”
I have in my hand a tractate of the Talmud. This is Massechet Beitzah, a volume of the Talmud I grabbed off a shelf in my office and it’s printing tells the story of the Jewish…
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Terumah 5780: “Walls and What They Contain”
The morning of August 11, 2008, began like any other. Sara, pregnant at the time with Hillel and Akiva, had a routine prenatal exam, and I drove to Princeton to spend the day unpacking boxes in…
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Terumah 5778: “Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood”
I hope you noticed that I was away last Shabbat. I certainly noticed. I spent Shabbat in New York City so that I could attend a wedding Saturday night. The wedding was lovely and a lot of…
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Terumah 5777: “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head”
Less than two weeks ago Jehan Jabar, an elementary school teacher in Tayibeh, an Arab city in central Israel, (not to be confused with Taybeh – in the West Bank where the brewery is), recorded a video…
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Terumah 5775: “He saw it. He loved it. He ate it.”
Years before he became famous, Brian Selznick, the author and illustrator of The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which was turned into the Academy Award winning movie “Hugo” worked at a children’s bookstore in New York near the apartment…
Rabbi David Wolkenfeld 