Parshah • February 2026
Tetzaveh – The Candle Has to Stay Lit
Why was the lighting of the Candelabra in the Mishkan so carefully worded, even seeking surety that the flame stays lit? Our soul is like G-d’s candle and each one…
Parshah • March 2025
Tetzaveh – What’s in a Name
Moses’ name doesn’t appear in this week’s Parsha even though he is its central figure. A name doesn’t express the essence of a person. It only identifies him for third…
Parshah • February 2024
Tetzaveh – Clothing Makes the Man
The substantive nature of this week’s Parsha, Tetzaveh, is straight out of a clothing design magazine. It provides a detailed description of the jacket style, pants, even headwear of the…
Parshah • March 2020
Tetzaveh – Light Up Your Life
Why was the lighting of the Candelabra in the Mishkan so carefully worded, even seeking surety that the flame stays lit? Our soul is like G-d’s candle and each one…
Parshah • February 2018
Tetzaveh – Being Society’s Lighthouse
A lighthouse provides guidance to shipping lanes and underwater dangers. The Jewish people’s role is to be a guidance system for societies and peoples of the world through practice of…
Parshah • March 2017
Tetzaveh – Our Inner Voice
Just as the High Priest of old consulted his breastplate (Choshen) for answers to difficult questions, so do we have access to our inner voice – our individual soul.
Parshah • February 2016
Tetzaveh – Can a Candle Light Up the Sun?
Instruction to use the purest of crushed olive oils for the candelabra. Why crushed? Humility is handmaiden of leadership and influence. When Jewish people practice humility they become the brightest…
Shemot - Exodus • February 2015
Tetzaveh – Amalek & Nazism
Never Again if you never forget. “Ve-Atta Tetzaveh es B’nei Ysroel…” Tetzaveh/Tzavta – connection. Commandment- contact point. Mind-contact in the present = understand, in the past = memory: Zachor. Certain…