DEAR RABBI MOSHE AND REBBETZIN MYRNA By: Suri Davis Dear Rabbi Moshe and Rebbetzin Myrna Weinberger: For these past weeks, I have been watching your weekly equisitely charming fireside chats, and looked forward to them every Friday. I rewatched the first couple of episodes this week to remind myself of what we were like…
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Chochmas Nashim: B’haalotcha: Whose Hand Is It
CHOCHMAS NASHIM: B’HAALOTCHA: WHOSE HAND IS IT? By: Suri Davis Hehehe, I received two birthday gifts erev Shavuoth. One was the biography of Esther Jungreis ZTL and the other the Melinda Gates book. I suppose I needed some female inspiration. I want to zone in on one story of Rebbetzin’s ancestor The Menuchas…
Chochmas Nashim: Naso: Elevation Revelation
CHOCHMAT NASHIM: NASO: Elevation Revelation By: Suri Davis I attended my nephew’s virtual graduation from medical school yesterday. One his professors quoted Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the…
CHOCHMAS NASHIM: GIVE IT A REST
CHOCHMAS NASHIM: GIVE IT A REST By: Suri Davis This week’s Torah portions of Behar Bechukotai discuss resting the land every 7th year, which in Hebrew is called Shmitah. Let’s first discuss a verse in the Ethics of our Fathers Chapter 5 which we read this Shabbos. It is customary to read Ethics of…
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DE BLAH BLAH BLAH ZIO By: Suri Davis I hope not to offend all of you, it would be nice if I didn’t offend any of you, but we live in a sensitive world these days. THERE IS NO PLACE IN THE WORLD FOR ANTI-SEMITISM, except that G-d thinks that there is. That’s the…
Chochmas Nashim: Emor: What Can I Say?
CHOCHMAS NASHIM: WHAT CAN I SAY? By: Suri Davis Governor Cuomo is ready to wind down the full quarantine in New York. It appears for now that the worst of the virus in New York has passed. I look at the long list of those who we lost in mere weeks, and I don’t…
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DE BLAH BLAH BLAH ZIO By: Suri Davis I hope not to offend all of you, it would be nice if I didn’t offend any of you, but we live in a sensitive world these days. THERE IS NO PLACE IN THE WORLD FOR ANTI-SEMITISM, except that G-d thinks that there is. That’s the…
Chochmas Nashim: My Noisy Table For One
CHOCHMAS NASHIM: MY NOISY SEDER TABLE FOR ONE By: Suri Davis I have not been shy about telling people that my first seder this year would be a table for one. I tried to anticipate what that would mean and how that would feel, and who would speak with whom at the seder. So…
Chochmas Nashim: Hagadah: Where Are the Four Sons?
CHOCHMAS NASHIM: HAGADAH By: Suri Davis In these days of quarantine, there is an issue circulating as to whether certain Orthodox Jews could Zoom conference a seder with others. I thought it was sensitive of a group of Rabbis in Israel to at least address the issue in an attempt to acknowledge and address…
CHOCHMAS NASHIM: VAYIKRA: SSSSALTY
CHOCHMAS NASHIM: VAYIKRA: SSSSALTY By: Suri Davis In Genesis 1:6, G-d separates the waters to the water in the heavens and the water that is on Earth. The water on Earth complained that it was relegated to earth, whereupon, says Rashi, G-d promised the earthly water that its salt would be used for…