Posts Tagged: Vayakhel sermon
A Rabbi Becomes an American Citizen
I became an American citizen this week. Over the past nine and a half years, first there were visas, then there were green cards, and...
Parshat Vayakhel: The Beauty of Holiness — or the Holiness of Beauty?
In Ki Tissa and in Vayakhel, we encounter the figure of Betzalel, a rare type in the Hebrew Bible -- the artist, the craftsman, the...
Our Community Influences Our Choices and Behavior
At the beginning of Vayakhel, Moses performs a tikkun, a mending of the past -- namely the sin of the Golden Calf. The Torah signals this by using...
