by Josh Warshawsky | May 30, 2023 | Divrei Torah
Naso 5783 – Sim Shalom Who merits to be able to give a blessing? Naso is one of the longest Torah portions and it comes right after we received the Torah over Shavuot. It is filled with sacrifices, gifts, and blessings, but the most familiar is probably the...
by Josh Warshawsky | May 30, 2023 | Divrei Torah
Shavuot 5783 – Letter in the Torah Three… Two… One! Countdowns are always exciting. Even just typing those numbers, I felt my heart start to beat faster… what are we counting down to?! What will happen at the end? We learn this anticipation from an early...
by Josh Warshawsky | May 16, 2023 | Divrei Torah
Bamidbar 5783 – Ahavah Rabbah I used to play monopoly a lot when I was a kid, and I was recently thinking about the Go Square on the Monopoly board. It’s the first square on the board where everyone starts the game. Each time you pass it throughout the rest of...
by Josh Warshawsky | May 9, 2023 | Divrei Torah
Behar/Bechukotai 5783 – Nasu After a fantastic weekend on the Jersey Shore at Congregation Torat-El, this week I’m back home in Columbus along with Coleen Dieker, my musical chevruta (study partner), immersing ourselves in music and creating some new melodies....
by Josh Warshawsky | May 1, 2023 | Divrei Torah
Emor 5783 – Come to Light My mom always says that you can tell an optimist by the kind of bananas they buy: the green ones! If you’re buying a green banana, it means you believe you’re going to live long enough to see them ripen and eat them. Rabbi Yisrael...
