Not by bread alone!

President James Garfield was quoted as saying “Man cannot live by bread alone, he must have peanut butter.” That is not the original conclusion of the famous biblical quote “Man does not live by bread alone, but rather by, whatever comes forth from the mouth of the...

Devarim – In Your Own Words

We are a people of words. We focus on Torah which is a book of divinely inspired words.  We relate stories and accounts of our ancestors and pass those stories down from generation to generation in words. We as a people are famous for our humor. There are endless...

The Sound of Silence and Celebration

This week’s Parshah is Bamidbar which is the Torah portion that we traditionally read on the Shabbat prior to Shavuot. Bamidbar means in the desert where Moses is taking a census, and the image of endless sand brings to mind the stillness and emptiness of that...
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