Posts Tagged: Sarah torah
A Jewish Matriarch: Sarah Teaches Us That We Have the Power to Stay Young
When a famous person passes away, newspapers try to capture their life and accomplishments in an obituary. The greater the person’s achievements, the longer and...
Great Rabbis Make the Torah Relevant Today
This week, I was privileged to participate in an international event that stretched across the globe, starting in New Zealand and Australia, and then finishing...
Shabbat Chayei Sarah: Say What You Mean
This week’s Torah reading has a subtle undercurrent of a theme: Never take what people say at face value! When Sarah died, Abraham wanted to buy...
Our Children’s Legacy Is Ours, Too
Our parsha this week contains the most serene description of old age and dying of anywhere in the Torah: “Then Abraham breathed his last and...
We Must Look to the Future, and Move on From the Past
He was 137 years old. He had been through two traumatic events involving the people most precious to him in the world. The first involved...
