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		<title>Parshat Mishpatim</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this week&#8217;s parashah, Mishpatim, the children of Israel accept the Torah by declaring &#8220;Na&#8217;aseh v&#8217;nishma&#8221; &#8212; which can be translated &#8220;We will do and we will understand.&#8221; Rabbi Menahem Mendel of Kotzk explained the phrase in this way:   Throughout history, the greatest thinkers have attempted to understand God intellectually, but they could comprehend only<a class="read-more" href="http://thenewshul.org/2012/02/16/parshat-mishpatim/">[Read More]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Parshat Yitro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s parashah, Yitro, tells the story of the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai.  Before giving the Torah, God promises:  &#8220;If you will truly hear my voice. . . you shall be my treasured possession.&#8221; The S&#8217;fat Emet noted that the first letters of the Hebrew words &#8220;you will truly hear my voice&#8221;<a class="read-more" href="http://thenewshul.org/2012/02/09/parshat-yitro/">[Read More]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Parshat B&#8217;shalah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Shabbat is called Shabbat Shirah, the Shabbat of Song, because in this week&#8217;s parashah we read the Song of the Sea, the song that the children of Israel sang after the waters had divided for them.  The ancient rabbis taught that the experience of redemption at the sea was also an experience of revelation,<a class="read-more" href="http://thenewshul.org/2012/02/02/parshat-bshalah/">[Read More]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Parshat Bo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this week&#8217;s parashah, Bo, God explains to Moshe that the purpose of the plagues in Egypt is an educational one: &#8220;So that you will recount in the ears of your children. . . how I displayed my signs among them. . . and you will know that I am YHWH.&#8221; By telling and retelling<a class="read-more" href="http://thenewshul.org/2012/01/26/parshat-bo/">[Read More]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Parshat Va&#8217;eira</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of this week&#8217;s parashah, Va&#8217;eira, God repeats his promise to Moshe to  take us &#8220;out from under the burdens of Egypt.&#8221;  The word for burdens (sivlot) comes from the same Hebrew root as the word for patience (savlanut).  Based on that similarity in the words, Rabbi Menahem Mendel of Kotzk interpreted the<a class="read-more" href="http://thenewshul.org/2012/01/19/parshat-vaeira/">[Read More]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Parshat Sh&#8217;mot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s parashah, Sh&#8217;mot, begins to tell the story of our liberation from Egypt.  How does the process of liberation begin?  After the death of the Pharoah who enslaved us, we cry out to God, and God hears our cry.  Immediately afterwards, God calls to Moshe at the burning bush and sends him back to<a class="read-more" href="http://thenewshul.org/2012/01/12/parshat-shmot/">[Read More]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Parshat Va-y&#8217;chi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this week&#8217;s parashah, Va-y&#8217;chi, Yaakov blesses his grandsons Menashe and Efrayim shortly before his death.  Yaakov&#8217;s blessing is the model for the blessings that we give to our children at the Shabbat table every Friday evening.  Before blessing the boys, Yakkov addresses their father Yosef, recalling some of the key events in his own<a class="read-more" href="http://thenewshul.org/2012/01/05/parshat-va-ychi/">[Read More]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Parshat Vayigash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this week&#8217;s parashah, Vayigash, Yosef reveals himself to his brothers, who had sold him into slavery years before. Yosef says to them, &#8220;Do not be sad. . . that you sold me here,&#8221; and explains that, had they not done so, he would not have been in a position to save the world from<a class="read-more" href="http://thenewshul.org/2011/12/29/parshat-vayigash/">[Read More]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Miketz/Hanukah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev taught that, just as the lighting of a flame is the essence of observing Hanukah, so it is the essence of every mitzvah. A true mitzvah is an expression of the sacred spark that is hidden deep inside us. Whenever we perform a sacred deed &#8212; an act of worship<a class="read-more" href="http://thenewshul.org/2011/12/22/miketzhanukah/">[Read More]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Parshat Vayeishev</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this week&#8217;s parashah, Vayeishev, Yosef is sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt.  Shortly after Yosef begins working in the house of Potiphar in Egypt,  the Torah tells us:  &#8220;And his master [Potiphar] saw that God was with [Yosef], and that God gave him success in everything that he undertook.&#8221;  Rashi explained that<a class="read-more" href="http://thenewshul.org/2011/12/15/parshat-vayeishev/">[Read More]</a>]]></description>
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