Everyone Needs A Yitro

This week’s Torah portion, Yitro, is one of the few that names a specific person. “Yitro” or “Jethro” is Moses’ father-in-law, and is an extremely important figure to this story, which is about Moses’ leadership style and how we will eventually form a system of government that does not completely...

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Community Softens the Heart

In this week’s Torah portion, Bo, God brings the final three plagues on the Egyptians and we leave Egypt. In the portion, we are told several times that God “hardened Pharaoh’s heart” in his refusal to let us go free from Egypt. What makes up these moments of Pharaoh’s hardened...

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Send Yourself to Shabbat

We need others in our life to help us carry through some of the tasks we may not be able to achieve on our own. There are simple tasks such as grocery shopping. Online grocery delivery makes it easy to stay at home and receive groceries if you are too...

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