THOUGHTS ON THE PARASHAH Rabbi Evan Hoffman – Congregation Anshe Sholom evanhoffman@gmail.com Parshat Vayetze – פרשת ויצא December 7, 2019 – ט כסלו תשפ Too Much Charity? The Babylonian Talmud records an enactment of the rabbinic conclave at Usha (Galilee, mid-second century CE), which forbade a Jew from dispensing more than one fifth of...

THOUGHTS ON THE PARASHAH Rabbi Evan Hoffman – Congregation Anshe Sholom evanhoffman@gmail.com Parshat Vayera – פרשת וירא November 16, 2019 – יח חשון תשפ This essay is sponsored by Janet & Gary Waller in memory of Esther bat Leib v’Hannah and Gittel bat Shachne v’Rachel. Seeing the Ram God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son...

THOUGHTS ON THE PARASHAH Rabbi Evan Hoffman – Congregation Anshe Sholom evanhoffman@gmail.com Parshat Bereshit – פרשת בראשית October 26, 2019 – כז תשרי תשפ This essay is sponsored by Joanne Wiesner-Steiner in loving memory of Abraham Wiesner אברהם בן נתן ז”ל. Creationism without Racism The Book of Genesis teaches that all humankind...