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ויצא, vayetze

in this week’s parsha, ויצא (vayetze), jacob sets out to bethuel, the house of his mother’s father, to find himself a wife, and perhaps some countless offspring in the progress.  he succeeds in...

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ויצא

This week’s parsha presents a number of fascinating narratives, as it deals with the major portion of Yaakov’s adult life prior to his children taking center stage in the narrative.  On the cursory...

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[Pardes from Jerusalem Podcast] VaYetze 5772

Rav Meir discusses barrenness and infertility in the matriarchs in this week’s podcast: VeYetze 5772 The post [Pardes from Jerusalem Podcast] VaYetze 5772 appeared first on These and Those.

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My ‘Night Seder’ Vort for Parshat Vayeitzei

I shared the following vort at night seder tonight: Parshat Vayeitzei opens and closes with Ya’akov erecting a מצבה (monument) made of a single אבן (rock). These scenes beautifully bookend a...

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[PCJE Dvar Torah] R. Julie Gordon –‘A Tale of Two Sisters’

ויצא If Leah were alive today, this is what I think she would tell us. “‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.’1 Rahel and I are twins2 born five minutes apart. I am the older sister,...

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[Pardes from Jerusalem Podcast] VaYetze 5773: Jacob’s Exodus from Haran

This week, Dr. Meesh Hammer-Kossoy discusses Jacob’s Exodus from Haran in VaYetze. Click here to listen Shabbat shalom! The post [Pardes from Jerusalem Podcast] VaYetze 5773: Jacob’s Exodus from Haran...

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[PCJE Dvar Torah] Girl Fight

I don’t really know what happens when two men fight, having never been a man and thus never had a man fight. But alas! After painstaking research via observation of the male species, surveying video...

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Just a bunch of stones

From my blog: Well, angelfish, the solution to your problem is simple. The only way to get what you want is to become a human yourself. It was 1:53PM Monday afternoon as I stood outside of Pardes...

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[PCJE Dvar Torah] Finding Blessing in Struggle

During a hike outside of Jerusalem on our first Pardes shabbaton I found myself walking behind two people that had just met. Like all first meetings go, they each introduced themselves, asked where the...

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Vayetze: Recognizing the Needs of Others

As part of a diverse community at Pardes, and an even greater multifaceted community within Israel at large, I am constantly intrigued at the different ways others, whom I might otherwise consider so...

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