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Messages from July 2025

Rabbi O’s Weekly Parsha: Matot-Masay (Numbers 30-36)    

                                                        What and Whom Are You Letting In? In this week’s Parsha, the Jewish people stand at the edge of a new chapter. They’re about to enter the Land of Israel after 40 years of wandering in the desert. Just before G-d commands them to go in, He gives them a very specific warning:You will drive […]

Rabbi O’s Weekly Parsha: Pinchas (Numbers 25:10–30:1)

From Routine to Radiance: When Small Acts Become Sacred This week’s parsha introduces the laws of inheritance—because of five remarkable women: the daughters of Tzelafchad. Here’s the claim they presented to Moshe: “Our father died in the desert. He was not among Korach’s faction, who protested against G-d, but died because of his own sin. […]

More Afraid of His Wife Than the Jump

:Lessons from a 90-Year-Old Skydiver and Parshas Balak This week in Salisbury, North Carolina, a 90-year-old man did something extraordinary: he jumped out of a plane at 14,000 feet. But that wasn’t even the most daring part—Ray Schehr later admitted he hadn’t told his wife he was going skydiving. Let’s pause for a moment and admire this […]

Rabbi O’s Weekly Parsha: (Chukat 19:1-21:1)

Look Up and Wake Up: The Snake, the Soul, and the Gaze That Heals In one of the more surprising episodes in the Torah, G-d instructs Moses to craft a copper snake and place it on a pole. When the Jewish people, suffering from deadly snake bites after complaining about the manna, looked at it—they […]