CHOCHMAS NASHIM: KORACH: ERETZ OCHELET YOSHVEHAH By: Suri Davis The Michaan Edition of the Pentateuch, with Lubavitch commentary has fascinating take on why a torah portion would be named after a person who started a mutiny, Korach.  This torah portion comes after last week’s torah portion of those who “spied” on the land of Israel…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM:  STUCK IN A MUCK…NOT By: Suri Stern     This week’s Torah portion is Behaalotchah, when you rise.   When spring came, my long time sage bush seemed dead, truly dead.  I didn’t have time to uproot it and throw it away, and time passed.  Yes, some of the leaves did die, but…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: BECHUKOTAI: MY NAME IS BOND By: Suri Davis   This Shabbos, is the blessing of the new month for the Jewish month of Sivan, in which we celebrate the holiday of Shavuoth, celebrating the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai from G-d to Moses and the Jews.  It is a day which…

Chochmas Nashim: Behar: I Thought It Was Shin Bet…It Was G-d’s Direct Hand By: Suri Davis   I have to admit, that when I heard that Iran’s President’s helicopter went down, I thought it was taken down by Shin Bet, Israel’s intelligence service, but it wasn’t, it was G-d’s direct hand, as it was at…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: EMOR: SPENDING YOM HAATZMAUT AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY’S COMMENCEMENT EXERCISE:  V’HABOR REK AYN BO MAYIM By:  Suri Davis This week’s Torah portion is the parshah of Emor/Say or Convey.  G-d tells Moses to tell Aaron, the high priest, that he and his family shall remain on a holier, more separate level of holiness than…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: KEDOSHIM: ITST IKH FARSHTEYN By: Suri Davis   So much on my mind these days.  As I watch police finally intervening to stop the encampments which were a culmination of years of radicalization by Hamas and Foreign Government “investments” in organizations in America, who use and utilize the freedoms set forth in our…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: ACHAREI MOT: REISHIS CHOCHMA YIRAT HASHEM By: Suri Davis   Yesterday morning at 6am, I watched the Los Angeles police move into UCLA to dismantle the encampment by terrorists who were permitted by UCLA to get deliveries of lumber and food and umbrellas and over 100 tents as they trespassed and took over…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: OF METZORAH,  MISSILES AND MATZOH By: Suri Davis My aunt Marcia died last week, and I learned while paying a shiva visit, that she always stopped veterans when she saw them to thank them for their years of service to our country.  So, it was today, I was pulling out of the Woodmere…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: SHEMINI: BILVAVI MISHKAN EVNEH: BRING THEM HOME By: Suri Davis   In last week’s Torah portion, Moshe was instructed to gather Aaron and his sons into the new mishkan/Tabernacle and show them how to erect it, perform the service, so that they would know how to perform this service in the future. On…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: TZAV: BIDEN AD NAUSEUM By: Suri Davis   THANK YOU MR. BIDEN, the word went out when he sent aid to Israel, at a time, and still the time when American hostages are being held by Arabs who call themselves Palestinians.  I was nauseated when I saw, wave after wave of syrupy praise…