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Bo: Timing is Everything

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Judaism places great emphasis on the proper use of time. For serious students there is practically no greater sin than that of bitul Torah—the wasting of precious time that could be devoted to Torah study and action. Successful people have…
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Bo: Changing Times

Rabbi Jay Kelman

One of the central tenets of our faith is the eternal relevance and unchanging nature of our Torah. The Torah is not only Divinely authored, it is an autobiography of G-d, with each mitzva reflecting a different aspect of the Divine. By observing…
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Scholar in Residence: Rav Yosef Carmel

Rav Yosef Carmel

Join us as the Or Chaim Minyan welcomes another distinguished Scholar in Residence for Shabbat! Rabbi Yosef Carmel is the Rabbinical Dean of the Eretz Hemdah Institute for Advanced Jewish studies in Jerusalem, as well as the Av Beit…
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Bo: Egyptian Appreciation

Rabbi Jay Kelman

The land of Egypt and the people of Egypt had undergone tremendous hardship and suffering.  Their  economy  had  been  destroyed, their material possessions depleted and their empire shown to be vulnerable. While the worst…
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Bo: A Short 430 years

Rabbi Jay Kelman

The devar Torah is sponsored by Caron and Steven Gelles and Family in memory of their Grandparents Sylvia and Sam Gelles and Martha and Louis Silver. Four hundred and thirty years is a long time. "The years that the Jewish people dwelled in…
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Bo: All Together Now

Rabbi Jay Kelman

This d’var Torah is sponsored by Claire and Howard Glowinsky l'ilui nishmas Chanah bas Rachel a”H, their dear aunt who passed away early this week. May her memory be for a blessing. In many ways, Sefer Shemot parallels Sefer…
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Bo: Matzah of Slavery, Matzah of Freedom

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Even those far from observance know that the reason we eat matzah is that we left Egypt in too much of a hurry to bake the bread. “And they baked the dough that they took from Egypt into matzah cakes, and it had not risen. They were expelled from…
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Bo: Moonlight

Rabbi Jay Kelman

In his opening comment on the Bible, Rashi links the Creation story to that of the Exodus. Working on the assumption that the Torah is primarily a book of law, Rashi famously asks why the Torah does not begin with the first law given to the Jewish…
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Bo: Alarm Clock

Rabbi Jay Kelman

“And Pharaoh awoke, he and all his officials and all the rest of Egypt. There was a great cry, as there was no house where there was no death” (12:30). If the Torah says that Pharaoh awoke, it must mean that until then, he had been…
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