CHOCHMAS NASHIM: HAAZINU: VAXING AND VAINING BLACK AND WHITE EREV YOM KIPPUR NIGHT By: Suri Davis Hearken heaven and I will talk, listen earth to the words of my mouth. There are some truths that are core from the days the world was created. We are not in control, G-d is. We see it…
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Abraham Accord: Whispers of Moshiach
AT THE WHITE HOUSE FOR THE ACCORD WHISPERS OF MOSHIACH IN THE WIND By: Suri Davis In 1979, I was very young watching President Jimmy Carter with Israel’s Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat at the signing of the Camp David accords in Washington. I was raptly engrossed in catching the…
Chochmas Nashim: Coming and Going
CHOCHMAS NASHIM:NITZAVIM VAYELECH: COMING AND GOING By: Suri Davis Every Rosh Chodesh we sing G-d’s praises while reciting Hallel, Psalms of gratitude to G-d. One verse we sing is “the dead do not praise G-d.” We ask G-d to keep us alive so that we may praise Him. At the end of the first…
Chochmas Nashim: Shoftim: Comfort From the Ultimate Judge
CHOCHMAS NASHIM: SHOFTIM: COMFORT FROM THE ULTIMATE JUDGE shark washes ashore in atlantic beach By: Suri Davis After months now of dealing with the world on a pandemic level, feeling judged by HKBH/G-d, challenged to stay at home, at a distance from those outside my home, and to sit with where I am in life and…
Chochmas Nashim: Re’eh Prism Garb
CHOCHMAS NASHIM: RE’EH: PRISM GARB By: Suri Davis Generally one analyzes torah by the juxtapositions of ideas and torah portions as a whole. I will analyze the juxtaposition of the names of last week’s torah portion title, Eikev, which means, “if only,” which discusses demeaning mitzvoth we consider “minor” or “inconsequential,” with this week’s…
Chochmas Nashim: Devarim: Days of Yore
CHOCHMAS NASHIM:DEVARIM: DAYS OF YORE By: Suri Davis In Ethics of Our Fathers, there are two different sayings which I want to focus on this week. The first is Fortunate is a good person, and fortunate is his neighbor. The second is Establish for yourself a Rabbi, buy yourself a friend. These verses reveal…
Chochmas Nashim: Journey The Legacy
CHOCHMAS NASHIM: MATOS MASEI: JOURNEY THE LEGACY By: Suri Davis It’s the summer, I’m feeling nostalgic and exhausted from these past months’ journey through the halls of Corona…I prefer Blue Moon…just saying… Summer memories are movies and music…since we are completing the Book of Numbers with the Parshah of Journeys, I thought I’d lean…
Chochmas Nashim: Pinchas: And I Can Do It Myself
Chochmas Nashim: Pinchas:…And I Can Do It Myself By: Suri Davis Once more about our quarantine. At the end of last week’s Torah portion, we see the Midianites’ successful attempt to seduce the Jews into adulterous and idolatrous behavior so that G-d’s anger would fall upon them. A plague breaks out, and Pinchas understanding the…
Chochmas Nashim: Chukat Balak: Sinful Reminiscence
Chochmas Nashim: Sinful Reminiscence By: Suri Davis I was in Macy’s the other day, and found myself in a time warp. There were Easter sale signs out with winter jackets, scarves, hats and gloves beneath. The same at Lord and Taylor and Bloomindales and Century 21. There was one cashier opened on each floor…
Chochmas Nashim: Korach: Hard To Swallow
CHOCHMAS NASHIM: KORACH: HARD TO SWALLOW By: Suri Davis עֲשָׂרָה דְבָרִים נִבְרְאוּ בְּעֶרֶב שַׁבָּת בֵּין הַשְּׁמָשׁוֹת, וְאֵלּוּ הֵן, פִּי הָאָרֶץ, וּפִי הַבְּאֵר, וּפִי הָאָתוֹן, וְהַקֶּשֶׁת, וְהַמָּן, וְהַמַּטֶּה, וְהַשָּׁמִיר, וְהַכְּתָב, וְהַמִּכְתָּב, וְהַלּוּחוֹת. וְיֵשׁ אוֹמְרִים, אַף הַמַּזִּיקִין, וּקְבוּרָתוֹ שֶׁל משֶׁה, וְאֵילוֹ שֶׁל אַבְרָהָם אָבִינוּ. וְיֵשׁ אוֹמְרִים, אַף צְבָת בִּצְבָת עֲשׂוּיָה: Ten things were created on the eve…