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Kehillat Nashira
Dec 192 min read
Parashah of the week: Vayeshev
This year, Rabbi Miriam is one of 5 rabbis and Jewish educators writing the Jewish Chronicle’s parashah column. Parashah of the Week:...
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Kehillat Nashira
Nov 152 min read
Parashah of the week: Vayera
This year, Rabbi Miriam is one of 5 rabbis and Jewish educators writing the Jewish Chronicle’s parasha column. We’re delighted to share...
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Kehillat Nashira
Jul 154 min read
Dvar Torah – Chukat – Moshe striking the rock
Written by Rachel Harris Delivered Shabbat 13th July 2024 Shabbat Shalom The story I read today is a famous one – the Israelites in the...
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Kehillat Nashira
Apr 125 min read
Tazria - How to become an ex-leper
The legendary comedy troupe Monty Python (who I am proud to call fellow Brits), in their take on Second Temple life in The Life of Brian,...
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Kehillat Nashira
Nov 23, 20233 min read
Devarim - Zachor for Purim
I love when the Jewish library offers a scavenger hunt. A trail of connecting texts across Torah, Tanach and Rabbinic writing which comes...
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Kehillat Nashira
Nov 23, 20233 min read
Shmot - Yitro
Saw you at Sinai? Regular readers of this parasha blog will know that I don’t often take up an explicitly feminist theme. Sure, I’m...
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Kehillat Nashira
Nov 23, 20233 min read
Bereishit - Vayetze
When Harris and I watch Netflix, it’s generally in ten minute chunks, snatched here and there amidst busy lives. On the odd occasion...
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Kehillat Nashira
Nov 23, 20233 min read
Bereishit - Vayera
Hagar Part II - or the Akeidah of Ishmael Last week we looked at Hagar’s first exile in the desert, and this week she’s there again -...
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Kehillat Nashira
Nov 23, 20233 min read
Devarim - Vayelech
It’s Shabbat shuva - the shabbat of repentance - and our days before Yom Kippur are slipping away. Very resonant therefore, is our...
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Kehillat Nashira
Nov 23, 20232 min read
Bereishit - Vayechi
The scene is a famous one. Yaakov, on his deathbed, asks to bless Efraim and Menashe, the two grandsons he only came to know at the end...
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Kehillat Nashira
Nov 23, 20237 min read
Shmot - Vayakel
What is one moment which captures a picture of your resilience in the past two years? Have this question in mind as we learn together....
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Kehillat Nashira
Nov 23, 20232 min read
Shmot - Vaera
Boiled eggs, free will and the Hogwarts Sorting Hat Like the hard boiled, burnt egg on our seder plate, with each successive plague...
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Kehillat Nashira
Nov 23, 20233 min read
Vayikra - Tzav
Tzav, which falls this year on Shabbat haGadol, continues the foray into the world of sanctuary rites and rules that characterise...
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Kehillat Nashira
Nov 23, 20232 min read
Shmot - Tetzaveh
Tetzaveh - you’ve got your hands full This is the fashionista’s sedra - full of opulent, exquisite details about clothes. The fabrics,...
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Kehillat Nashira
Nov 23, 20233 min read
Shmot - Terumah
Nine and a half years ago, when Kehillat Nashira was a new dream, Gaby and I, the minyan’s founding chairpeople, spent much time thinking...
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Kehillat Nashira
Nov 22, 20233 min read
Devarim - Shoftim
What are the things you live for? What motivates you above all else? What would distract your focus from a mission you are supposed to be...
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Kehillat Nashira
Nov 22, 20237 min read
Vayikra - Shmini
Shabbat shalom This sedra presents a veritable embarrassment of riches and it was seriously hard to decide what to speak about, but I...
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Kehillat Nashira
Nov 22, 20237 min read
Shmot - Shmot
Shabbat shalom This sedra presents a veritable embarrassment of riches and it was seriously hard to decide what to speak about, but I...
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Kehillat Nashira
Nov 22, 20232 min read
Bemidbar - Shelach
Here’s a fun text study exercise if you get a chance over Shabbat or before - compare the beginning of our parasha, Shlach (follow this...
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Kehillat Nashira
Nov 22, 20233 min read
Devarim - Re'eh
With the start of Shabbat will come the start of Ellul - our month of preparation for the Chagim to come. One of my friends, a fellow...
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