CHOCHMAS NASHIM: THREE YEARS WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY By: Suri Davis   This month is the three year mark since a man was taken to St. Joseph hospital in Far Rockaway and brought Covid to our community.  We were in a position to deconstruct our shuls and figure out how to serve G-d individually.…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: CREATING WITH G-D By: Suri Davis In this week’s torah portion, it discusses how G-d would bestow on Bezalel and Ahaliav chochmah/wisdom to build the vessels of the mishkan/travelling temple. Juxtaposed to this giving of wisdom to create the vessels of the Mishkan, is the commandment to keep the Shabbos.  What is the…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM:  MISHPATIM: OUR KIDS HAVE BEEN KIDNAPPED By:  Suri Davis In this week’s torah portion there is an unusual juxtaposition of three verses: Exodus 21: 15-17: If a person strikes his father or his mother he must be put to death. If a person kidnaps a man, and witnesses found him in his possession…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: BINFOL OYVECHAH AL TISMACH By:  Suri Davis   On Tisha B’av, we read the book Lamentations, where Jeremiah states to our enemies, Lamentations 3:64:  Requite them, G-d, according to the work of their hands.” And 4:21 “ Unto you (our enemy) will pass the wine glass of retribution, become drunk and vomit.”  While…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: BINFOL OYVECHAH AL TISMACH By:  Suri Davis   On Tisha B’av, we read the book Lamentations, where Jeremiah states to our enemies, Lamentations 3:64:  Requite them, G-d, according to the work of their hands.” And 4:21 “ Unto you (our enemy) will pass the wine glass of retribution, become drunk and vomit.”  While…

CHOCMAS NASHIM: PARSHAT B’SHALACH, SHABBOS SHIRA By: Suri Davis This is the parshah of derech eretz, because we know that derech eretz kadmah l’torah, and next week is the parshah in which the torah is given. In Az Yashir, the verse states Zeh Keli v’anvehu, the Mechilta expounds that V’anvehu, and I will glorify Him,…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: WE INTERRUPT THIS PORTION… Suri Davis  We are coming to the climax of the story of Jewish slavery in Egypt, ten plagues, Pharaoh’s obstinancy in refusing to permit the Jews to leave, and THEN…   Oh by the way, this month of Nissan is going to be considered as the beginning of the…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM:  TRAGIC LOSS OF TWO By: Suri Davis   Yesterday in the news, there was a tragic loss of Boruch Taub and Binyomin Chafetz who were Ohio residents, who flew a small propeller plane from their home in Ohio to pay a shiva visit in New York.  Really?  Tragedy as they are coming home…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM:  WHO DIDN’T KNOW By: Suri Davis The torah portion, Shemot, starts off with the verse, “A new king came upon Egypt, who didn’t know Yosef.”  Really?  Joseph who was second to Pharaoh and saved the region from famine on the advice of G-d to store the grain during the years of abundance, so…

A BUNCH OF BOYS ON ADDERALL HAVING A SLEEPING OVER PARTY By:  Suri Davis   Just watching the Sam Bankman-Fried interview by the NY Times/Dealbook.  Almost an hour into the interview the interviewer had an epiphany, “It sounds like you were a bunch of boys on Adderall (the Add/Adhd medicine, which highly ambitious personalities (ab)use…