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July 2024

June 2024

A Land of Milk and Honey
Please Note: Torah at the Table will be on hiatus for a few weeks, while my family takes a much needed vacation.
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Second Chances
There are many references to food in both last week’s Torah portion, Naso, (which I skipped in order to offer ideas for Shavuot) and this week’s…
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Shavuot
This website is all about celebrating Torah, and there is no holiday more focused on Torah than Shavuot, when we celebrate receiving the Torah at Mt…
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Banners and Crests
When my husband and I were engaged, we enjoyed playing around with potential mash-ups for of our last names to create a new “family name” that we would…
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May 2024

Reward and Punishment
This week’s Torah portion, Bechukotai, opens with one of the most persistent but challenging ideas in the Torah: the idea that God rewards the faithful…
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Freedom
This week’s Torah portion, Behar, introduces the economic and agricultural laws of the sabbatical and Jubilee years.
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Acts of Service
The opening of this week’s Torah portion, Emor, describes the special expectations that pertain only to the members of the priesthood.
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To Be Holy
This week’s Torah portion, Kedoshim, articulates the central theme of the book of Leviticus: what does it mean to be holy?
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The Omer
This week’s Torah portion, Acharei Mot, recalls the ancient rituals of Yom Kippur, which include sending a goat off into the wilderness for Azazel to…
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