NEW MEMBER SHABBAT
By Cyril |
GAINESVILLE Look around you for a moment. Really look. To your left, to your right, in front of you and ...
Parashat Shemini: The Fire We Cannot Explain
By Cyril |
It is the eighth day after the Mishkan, the Tabernacle, has been completed. The whole community is in a state ...
SHABBAT CHOL HA MOED PESACH – GAINESVILLE
By Cyril |
In the past couple of weeks, we were immersed in one thing in our Torah calendar: the sacrifices, the korbanot ...
TZAV – GAINESVILLE
By Cyril |
I don’t know about you, but when I was growing up, every Monday night there was a oft-repeated instruction coming ...
OH NO! LEVITICUS!
By Cyril |
There is one time in the year when rabbis break out in sweats. No, it’s not hte High Holidays, believe ...
A VISION OF JUSTICE
By Cyril |
One of the consequences of being a student of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament is that I understand ...
THE REAL BLESSING
By Cyril |
Parahat Bo - Gainesville Do you remember the good old days when we actually had to sit through a movie ...
SHEMOT – Feeling the Pain
By Cyril |
Gainesville One phrase, that’s all it takes to completely change the trajectory of the life of the Jewish people. And ...
VAYECHI – BACK TO THE PLACE WE CAME FROM
By Cyril |
Gainesville 2025 I want to share a little bit of my personal history with you today. When I was in ...
BAD REALITY TV
By Cyril |
Vayigash Gainesville Stella and I have an ongoing argument. She is very much into reality TV dramas, mostly for background ...