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Shabbat HaGadol 5786 - The Path to Unity: Matzah and Maror as Process, Korban Pesach as Yichud

Vayikra 5786 - From Self to Service: The Rambam’s Vision of Korbanot and the Transformation of Avodat Hashem

Vayakhel 5786 - The Veil After the Calf: How the Thirty-Nine Melachot Restore Hidden Light

Ki Tisa 5786 - The Secret of Twenty-Four: Parah Adumah and the Harmony of the Spiritual and Physical Worlds

Purim 5786 - From Then Until Now: The Post-Megillah Blessing and the Eternal Promise of Hope

Robert M. Cover - Nomos and Narrative

Mishpatim 5786 - Where Justice Meets the Mizbeach: Mishpatim and the Transcendence of Torah Law

Yitro 5786 - One Voice, Many Hearings: How Each Individual’s Hearing Counted as Divine Speech at Sinai

Beshalach 5786 - The Light That Descends: Shabbos as Divine Gift and Weekly Transformation

Bo 5786 - Seeing and Knowing: Kiddush HaChodesh and the Harmony of the Written and Oral Torah

Vayehi 5786 - The Unity of Silence: Baruch Shem and the Hidden Yichud

Vayigash 5786 - Where Insight Rises Before Reason: The Dreamlike Origins of Torah She Be'al Peh

Chanuka 5786 - From Hoda’ah to Hiddur: Cultivating Consciousness of the Nissim Nistarim

Vayeshev 5786 - Bridging Worlds: Yosef HaTzaddik, Midat Yesod, and the Holiness of Faithfulness

Vayishlach 5786 - Origins in Yaakov, Obligation at Sinai: The Mystical Path of Gid HaNasheh

Vayetze 5786 - Priming the Light: Yaakov’s Rods and the Secret of the Tefillin Shel Rosh

Chaye Sarah 5786 - The Wedding at Sinai: The Source of Holiness in the Jewish Marriage

Vayera 5786 - The Divine Equilibrium: Uniting the Midot in the Image of Hashem

Lech Lecha 5786 - The Flow of Light: Reflecting the Infinite Through Giving and Receiving

Bereshit 5786 - When One Became Two: The Divine Split and the Genesis of Freedom

Shemini Atzeret 5786 - Gathering the Blessings: Shemini Atzeret and the Vision of Shlomo HaMelech

Sukkot 5786 - “Squaring the Circle: Sukkah Agulah and the Geometry of Destiny”

Yom Kippur 5786 - The Question of ‘Who’: Renewal and Transformation on Yom Kippur

Rosh Hashana 5786 - Creation Reframed: The Three Books of Rosh Hashana

Selichot 5785 - Turning Prayer into Renewal

Ki Tetze 5785 - Amalek: The King’s War, Our Battle

Shoftim 5785

Re'eh 5785

Tu BeAv5785 - Uncovering the Mystery of Tu BeAv

Matot Masey 5785 - Yishuv HaAretz: Living through Toil

Balak 5785 - Bilam and the Rise Of Mashiach

Chukat 5785 - The Uniqur Revelation of the Be'er

Korach 5785 - The Multiple Facets of Makhloket

Beha'alotecha 5785

Naso 5785 - Birkat Kohanim - The Human Mediation of Shefa

Shavuot 5785 - The Development of the Structure of the Amidah

Shavuot 5785 - Tefilah: Turning Needs into Connection

Bamidbar 5785 - The Eternal Dimension of Human Names

Emor-Bechukotay 5785 - The Unique Dating of Shavuot and the Divine/Human Partnership

Emor 5785 - The Incomplete Torah and the Divine/Human Partnership

Aharey 5785 - The Importance of a Balanced Life

Metzora 5785 - The Four Metzora'yim and the Miraculous Life

Shemini 5785 - P'sak and Wine: The Effect of Etz Hada'as

Erev Pesach on Shabbos and the Hillel Revelation

Pekudey 5785 - Herod, Hillel and the Beautified Bais MaMikdash

Vayakhel 5785 - The Ideal Shabbos and the 28 Hour Day

Ki Tisa 5785 - The Ki’or and Female Intuition

Purim 5785 - The Dawn of a New Dimension of Miracles

Teruma 5785 - The Mizbeach: From Dirt to Ashes

Mishpatim 5785 - Eved Ivry: When the Inner Core is Affected

Yisro 5785 - Te'amim: The Melody and Poetry of the Torah

Beshalach 5785 - The Mystical Meaning of Tu Bishvat

Va'era 5785 - Moshe and Aharon The Unequal Equality

Vayehi 5785 - Binyamin From Werewolf to the Mizbeach

Vayigash 5785 - Binyamin the Mediator The Model of Asarah BeTevet

Miketz Chanuka 5785 - Yosef and Chanukah: Particularity Within Diversity

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