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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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Jan 19, 2018

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 was yet to come—the death…
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Feb 3, 2017

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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Jan 15, 2016

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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Jan 3, 2014

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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Jan 18, 2013

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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Jan 27, 2012

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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Jan 7, 2011