RABBI DEBRA KOLODNY

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Moms Demand Action speech

Posted by on Oct 28, 2020

Moms Demand Action speech

August 20, 2019  The ten commandments are clear. And of course the one most appropriate to remember today is “Thou shalt not murder”. The Talmud expands upon that Torah command and teaches us that “the one who takes one life, it is as though they have destroyed the universe. And the one who saves one life, it is as though they has saved the universe” (Mishnah Sanhedrin...

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Midrash on Parshat “Lech Lcha,” Breishit/Genesis 12:11-20

Posted by on Oct 25, 2017

Midrash on Parshat “Lech Lcha,” Breishit/Genesis 12:11-20

Shabbat MarCheshvan 8, 5778 (Torah Portion “GO to yourself!”) “Me too” whispered Sarai, hugging her knees to her chest, sitting in a fetal position. “Me too” said Sarai, standing up to speak. Because my weak and fearful husband thought he needed to whore me out to Pharaoh to save his own life, because my faithless husband did not believe the blessings of Yud He Vav He—because Avram did not...

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