Peter Kessler

Many Forms of Beauty, Many Reasons for Marriage

D'Var Torah By: Peter Kessler

Focal Point He had scarcely finished speaking when Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel, the son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor, came out with her jar on her shoulder. The maiden was very beautiful, a virgin whom no man had known. She went down to the spring

How Do We Make God Holy?

D'Var Torah By: Rabbi Joe Rooks Rapport

The point of being Jewish is to have a relationship with God. Yet, a relationship implies a certain give and take, and there is precious little in the Torah that talks about what we have that God could possibly need. What can we give to God? That doesn't mean we