Rabbi Mordechai Wollenberg
Parashah of the week: Balak
God happened upon Balaam, who stated, ‘I have set up the seven altars and offered up a bull and a ram on each’” Numbers 23:4
Parashah of the week: Naso
“The one who brought his offering on the first day was Nachshon the son of Aminadav of the tribe of Judah” Numbers 7:12
Parashah of the week: Kedoshim
“You shall rise before a venerable person and you shall respect the elderly, and you shall fear your God. I am the Lord” Leviticus 19:32
Parashah of the week: Shemini
“Any animal that has a cloven hoof that is completely split into double hooves and which brings up its cud that one you may eat” Leviticus 11:4
Parashah of the week: Ki Tissa
“Each man shall give a pledge of atonement for his soul… this he shall give… a half-shekel coin” Exodus 30:11-13
Parashah of the week: Beshallach
He gave them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them” Exodus 15:25
Vayigash
“[Joseph] sent his brothers on their way, as they left, he said to them, ‘See that you do not become agitated on the way’” Genesis 45:24
Portion of the week: Toldot
“Isaac dwelt in Gerar… and he said, ‘She is my sister’…. And when he had been there a long time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines looked out at a window and saw Isaac sporting with Rebecca, his wife” Genesis 26:7-8
Parashah of the week: Bereshit
“Now the Lord God took the man, and He placed him in the Garden of Eden to work it and to guard it” Genesis 2:15
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