CHOCHMAS NASHIM:  LIVING MILLENNIA IN A WEEK, PART I By: Suri Stern   A call came from Jerusalem “Eema, we need your help here, can you come?”  I heard the details, and I said, “of course.”   How could I get there quickly and economically?  No one was flying on the Fast of the Ninth…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: DEVARIM: EICHAH: YIDDELIN SHRAI AD MASAI By:  Suri Davis אֵיכָ֥ה אֶשָּׂ֖א לְבַדִּ֑י טׇרְחֲכֶ֥ם וּמַֽשַּׂאֲכֶ֖ם וְרִֽיבְכֶֽם׃ How can I bear unaided the trouble of you, and the burden, and the bickering! Deuteronomy 1:12 Moses asks the nation, how he can carry the burden of the people, how he can lead alone. The first word…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM:  PINCHAS: TRANSFORMATION By: Suri Davis   There is a beautiful concept roaming around these last three torah portions that is so integral to where we are now in history. We have the story in the portion of Chukat, where Moses is told to glorify G-d’s name by talking to the rock and he…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM:  BALAK: ELECTIONS, PEARSALL DEVELOPMENT By: Suri Davis   It’s insulting already how there has not been one Orthodox woman put on a meaningful election ballot in Nassau County.  The last time there was a meaningful Jewish female candidate was Carol Berman: Wikipedia:  Carol Berman (born September 21, 1923) is a New York Democratic Party politician from Lawrence, in Nassau…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: CHUKAT: FAITH By:  Suri Davis   Forty six years ago today Jewish hostages were saved from their kidnapped place in Entebbe Uganda.  Those alive at the time will remember holding our collective breathes waiting to hear the fait of the 94 Israelis and Jews who were held hostage in Uganda with the consent…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: EAU DE TOILETTE By:  Suri Davis The numerical value of Korach is Rekach, a perfumer or spiced as in Song of Songs 5:13:  “like a bed of spices are His words at Sinai, like towers of perfume,” and 8:2:…”to drink, I’d give You spiced libations, wines like pomegranate nectar.” Perfume and spices are…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM:  KIBBUTZ GALUYOT Suri Davis   Sunny daze everything’s a okay… As I prepare for my son’s wedding, my other sons are coming in from Israel My daughter is coming home with her new husband The wedding is on the summer solstice, the longest day of the year Relatives are coming near and far…

TEACHERS PUT YOUR WEAPONS DOWN By: Suri Davis I went to a park recently where there were nursery/kindergarten children from a school with their teachers.  There were many exciting swings and obstacle courses with which the children could play, except for one thing. The teachers were armed.  Armed with what, you might ask?  Armed with…

CHOCMAS NASHIM: BECHUKOTAI: OUR IDYLL By:  Suri Davis     וְנָתַתִּ֥י גִשְׁמֵיכֶ֖ם בְּעִתָּ֑ם וְנָתְנָ֤ה הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ יְבוּלָ֔הּ וְעֵ֥ץ הַשָּׂדֶ֖ה יִתֵּ֥ן פִּרְיֽוֹ׃ I will grant your rains in their season, so that the earth shall yield its produce and the trees of the field their fruit. וְהִשִּׂ֨יג לָכֶ֥ם דַּ֙יִשׁ֙ אֶת־בָּצִ֔יר וּבָצִ֖יר יַשִּׂ֣יג אֶת־זָ֑רַע וַאֲכַלְתֶּ֤ם לַחְמְכֶם֙ לָשֹׂ֔בַע וִֽישַׁבְתֶּ֥ם…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: DUST BALLS By: Suri Davis   This Shabbos is called Shabbos Hagadol, the great/awesome Shabbos, named after the Haftorah we read after the Torah reading.  It hails the upcoming holiday of redemption. Today is the 7th day of Nissan, one month after the passing of Moses, the day Joshua started preparing the Jews…