Dalia Marx

Torrah and Kippah
B'har

Walking and Standing

D'Var Torah By: Dalia Marx

 April 15, 2013
It is not obvious that the compilers of the Torah chose to finish the third book of the Torah with a set of blessings and curses. A similar section of blessings and curses, yet much longer, is found at the end of Deuteronomy, the fifth Torah book. It appears in...
Torrah and Kippah
Sukkot

Emor

D'Var Torah By: Dalia Marx

 March 20, 2013
How have men and women today inherited the roles and activities of the ancient priests? We can find some interesting theories about this in Parashat Emor, in Talmud and Mishnah, and in later commentaries and prayers. Between the sections of the Torah dealing with special laws relating to priests, the...
Torrah and Kippah
Shavuot

Emor

D'Var Torah By: Dalia Marx

 March 20, 2013
How have men and women today inherited the roles and activities of the ancient priests? We can find some interesting theories about this in Parashat Emor, in Talmud and Mishnah, and in later commentaries and prayers. Between the sections of the Torah dealing with special laws relating to priests, the...
Torrah and Kippah
Sukkot

Priests, Men, and Women

D'Var Torah By: Dalia Marx

 March 20, 2013
How have men and women today inherited the roles and activities of the ancient priests? We can find some interesting theories about this in Parashat Emor, in Talmud and Mishnah, and in later commentaries and prayers. Between the sections of the Torah dealing with special laws relating to priests, the...
Torrah and Kippah
Marriage

What Does It Mean To Be Holy?

D'Var Torah By: Dalia Marx

 March 20, 2013
In the democratic society of Israel, we with struggle the concept of what it means to be am chofshi b'artzeinu, "a free people in our land." We ask, "What does the responsibility of freedom require from us?" Every year, it seems the answers are less obvious and the search to...