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…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: ZACHOR: WHO CAN FORGET? By: Suri Davis   It is not difficult for us to remember Amalek, we are experiencing it this very moment in the Gazan war. I saw two shows this year on Broadway, one was Leopoldstat and the other Lehman Brother Trilogy.  The basis of the Leopoldstat was a Jewish…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM:PIKUDEI :INTENTIONS By: Suri Davis     In this week’s Haftorah, it discusses King Solomon’s dedication of the holy Temple in Jerusalem and three points stand out to me.   When it was completed and the ark with the tablets of the ten commandments was placed in the holy of holies, the Temple was…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: VAYAKHEL: ASSEMBLIES By: Suri Davis   There are numerous times throughout this torah portion where the term Chacham Lev Ladaat/wise of the heart, to know.  The term is jam packed with deep meaning of the world reality. We think of wisdom stemming from our minds and not our hearts.  A wise heart is…