Parashat ha-Shavua

Parashat Noah

Genesis 6:9-11:32; Isaiah 54:1-55:5; Luke 1:5-80

God commanded Noah to place a door on the side of the ark. In Chasidic teaching, the door in the ark symbolizes repentance. Along the same lines, our Master compared repentance to a door. He taught His disciples to escape the coming judgment by repenting and passing through the narrow door to enter God's salvation.

Parashat Bereishit

Gen 1:1-6:8; Isaiah 42:5 - 43:11; Revelation 19:6-16;

Did God create the world or did it always exist? From the Torah the answer is clear, "In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth" (Genesis 1:1). However, how about the scientists? What do they believe?

Lawrence Kelemen sheds light on the question in his book, Permission to Believe. Until the early 20th century the astronomers had 3 models for the Universe:

Deuteronomy 31:1-30; Hosea 14:2-10; Micah 7:18-20; Joel 2:15-17

Don't Point Fingers

‘And I will surely hide my face in that day because of all the evil that they have done, because they have turned to other gods. (Devarim / Deuteronomy 31:18; ESV)