Blessing of the Sun

There’s a lot of chatter on the internet about the meaning of the blessing of the sun (Birkas HaChamah), which occurs every 28 years and next on April 8, 2009, erev Pesach 14 Nissan when the sun returns to the exact position as it was on the day it was created....

Why the year 2018? Look to the Beginning.

To find the secret of why 5778 HC or 2018 CE, we can look to the sky and see the sun lording over us, burning away at 5778 K, or look under our noses to the very first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, to the seed of creation. First we should note that just as the...

River of Life

The longest word in the Torah has 10 letters (VBMShERVTYC) and was used just once.  Innocuously enough, it means kneading troughs, where the Egyptians made their bread and where the frogs of the 2nd plague jumped into. Any time something in the Torah singularly...

Naming Names; The Gifts we've been Given.

What’s in a Name? Why does the Torah pause to list them? What happened 3330 years ago (66.6 jubilee years) that we NEED to understand to help us today? “These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob…” The second of the...

The Sacrifices; Then and more so Now.

Each of the 8 days of Chanukah we read a laundry list of sacrifice to be made by the 12 tribes in the Miskan or Holy Temple, events far removed from our lives by thousands of years. 1 Silver plate weighing 130 shekels (ShKL) 1 Silver bowl weighing 70 shekels 1 Gold...