Monthly Archives: January 2021

This week the SD was listening to a continuing legal education on trial tactics in personal injury cases. The SD tries to avoid bringing in the day job, but this was too illuminating. The lecturer started by paying homage to … Continue reading →

Sometimes you can go a whole week of reading the parsha on the bus, the train, waitingin line… and somehow you miss the gem. In Chapter 10 in the plague of darkness, Pharoah calls Moses and says, you and your … Continue reading →

The story in Parshat shmos is pretty well known. Pharoah and Egyptians enslave the Jews. Little Baby Moses is born. Moses is hidden for three months. He is then put in a basket and put into the Nile. Fortuitously, Pharoah’s … Continue reading →

Jews and Food. It is cliche (like Irish and whiskey). A close friend once told me that we actually serve Hashem ritually by eating. These pages in pesachim reinforce this idea. In the mishna we are told that on passover … Continue reading →