The Four Parshiyot

“Keep Your Eye on the Coin!” “Why?”

WHAT’S NEW? ISRAEL!

"Zakhor" Before Purim

Amalek sought to demonstrate, by attacking the spiritually weak, those whom the Clouds of Glory had cast out, that the secret of Israel's power lay in their observance of the Torah and its commandments, that they possess no intrinsic sanctity.

A Community Coin

Parashat Shekalim

The Sin of the Golden Calf is rectified by the communal service in the Holy Temple. This is achieved via the precept of the half-shekel offering, which ascends in the form of a united Jewish people and is transformed into a “coin of fire under God’s Throne of Glory.”

The Whys and Wherefores of Parshas Zachor

The First Month and Renewal

Parashat Hachodesh

We are responsible for providing new, novel understandings of the Torah every day in accordance with the changing times. “Each day they shall be as new in your eyes,” and by virtue of this innovation “God renews the act of creation on a daily basis.”

The Mystery of Purification - and National Revival

Parashat Para

The return of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel spells the return of the soul of Israel, lost for thousands of years in the Exile, to the Eternal People as they themselves return to the vibrancy of full-fledged natural life in the land of their birth.

The Four Parshiot and their Significance

The parallel and connection between the four Parshiot, the four cups of the Seder, and the four expressions of redemption.