V'zot HaBracha

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Parshat Shavua 5784 with weekly guest speakers (Vzot Habracha)

Dr. Moshe Sokolow

Audio
Oct 21, 2024

Shemini Atzeret: The Rainy Season Begins

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Join as we discuss some of the reasons we read V'Zot Ha'Beracha on Shemini Atzeret. (They may not be what you think.) 
Podcast
Oct 21, 2024

Vzot Habracha: The Ends of the Chumash

Rabbi Jay Kelman

If one wants to get a quick overview of a book one tends to read the introduction or perhaps the opening pages. That is where a typical author sets out the major themes of their work. One would not look to the end of the book, or each chapter –…
Article
Oct 6, 2023

Parshat Shavua 5783 with weekly guest speaker (Vzot Habracha)

Dr. Rivka Press Schwartz

Audio
Oct 5, 2023

Parshat Shavua 5781 with weekly guest speaker (V'zot Habracha)

Atara Kelman

Audio
Sep 23, 2021

V'zot HaBracha: From G-d to Man

Rabbi Jay Kelman

When writing a book, a good author will introduce the major themes of the book in the opening chapters, develop these and other secondary themes throughout the story, and conclude with a recap highlighting the major themes of the book.  The…
Article
Oct 20, 2019

V'zot HaBracha: A Man of G-d

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Even though Parshat Vezot Ha'beracha is read over and over again during Simchat Torah it is probably one of the least understood and studied parshiot of the Chumash. With all the hustle and bustle of the Yamim Tovim in general, and with the…
Article
Sep 30, 2018

V'zot HaBracha: It Too is a Blessing

Rabbi Jay Kelman

In one of the great mistakes in history, Alfred Nobel was lucky enough to read his own obituary—a result of an error of an editor who printed Alfred’s obituary instead of that of his recently deceased brother. Reading himself described…
Article
Oct 4, 2015

V'zot HaBracha: Four Giants

Rabbi Jay Kelman

“And Moshe was one hundred and twenty years when he died” (Devarim 34:7). It is a beautiful, if somewhat unrealistic, custom to offer blessings to those celebrating a birthday that they should live to be 120. While this quantity of life…
Article
Sep 25, 2013