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To Be Seen – the Torah Portion of Va’era

Posted on January 4, 2019 by Michal Kohane

There are three sets of 10’s in our tradition: Ten Utterances with which the world was created, the Ten Plagues, and the upcoming Ten Commandments, and with each one we have to wonder: why couldn’t G-d create the world with … Continue reading →

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on the complicated journey to freedom and the patience we need to take with it*

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Michal Kohane

The journey of a band of slaves going out to freedom is fascinating, mostly because it’s not just a long ago and far away, and not just a national story of some tiny people some place, but rather, something that … Continue reading →

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Why Moses?

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Michal Kohane

Maybe it’s the Torah’s way of warning us how easy it is to go “down”, for within just a few verses, life has changed very dramatically! No longer in the Land of Israel, we’re living in Egypt; no longer a … Continue reading →

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