Rabbi Helene Ainbinder
Rabbi Helene Ainbinder has more than 25 years of teaching experience in diverse Jewish movements. She has taught in a variety of mediums, including in religious schools of the Conservative…
From the Rabbi’s Study…Shabbat August 4, 2023/17 Av 5783
Torah: Eikev (Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25) Haftarah: Isaiah (49:14-51:3) Deuteronomy is the final fifth book in the Torah, which Moses discourses to the Jewish people. The Torah’s second discourse of Moses continued:…
From The Rabbi’s Study…Shabbat, July 28, 2023/10 Av 5783
Torah: Va’Etchanan (Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11) Haftarah:(Isaiah 40:1-26) Shabbat Nachamu/ Shabbat of Consolation is the Sabbath after the Ninth of Av. The Ninth of Av is the day that BOTH Beit Hamikdash/Holy…
From the Rabbi’s Study…Shabbat July 21, 2023/ 3 Av 5783
Torah: Devarim (Deuteronomy 1:1-3: 22) Haftarah:(Isaiah 1:1-27) Tish B’Av is the 9th of Av which is the anniversary of the Fall of Jerusalem. The Torah has the introduction to farewell…
From The Rabbi’s Study…Shabbat June 23, 2023/ 4 Tammuz 5783
Torah: Korach (Numbers 16:1-18:32) Haftarah: (I Samuel 11:14-12:22) I will be traveling from June 24 through July 12 (late evening) visiting Italy, Israel and England.
From The Rabbi’s Study… Shabbat June 16, 2023/27 and 28 Sivan 5783
Torah: Shelach Lecha (Numbers 13:1-15:42) Haftarah: (Joshua 2:1-24) The Torah continues with the ten spies and their reports. The children of Israel rebel, the punishment of the children of Israel,…
From The Rabbi’s Study… June 9,2023/20 Sivan 5783
Torah Behaalotecha (Numbers 8:1-12:16) Haftarah (Zechariah 2:14-4:7) The Torah portion has the description of the seven-branched candelabrum (menorah), the dedication of the Levites, the second Passover, the journey from Sinai…
From The Rabbi’s Study… Shabbat June 2, 2023/13 Sivan 5783
Torah: Naso (Numbers 4:21-7:89) Haftarah: (Judges 13:2-25) The Torah has many interesting mitzvot and these are a few; a census was taken in the Sinai desert, a total of 8,580…
From The Rabbi’s Study… Shabbat, May 26, 2023/6 Sivan 5783
Erev of Shavuot will be on Thursday night May 25, kindly kindle the Holiday candles for Shavuot and your Yizkor candles. Shabbat Candles on Friday night. This is the reason…
From The Rabbi’s Study…May 19, 2023/28 Iyar 5783/Omer 43,44 5783
Torah: Bamidbar (Numbers 1:1-4:20) Haftarah:(Hosea 2:1-22) Shabbat May 19th we celebrate Yom Yerushalayim, the reunification of East Jerusalem in 1967 after the Six Days War. The Torah portion is from…