Archive: November 2025

Parashat: Va-Yetzei

Posted on November 25, 2025

Rabbi Craig Axler on Parashat: Va-Yetzei for a Shabbat @ Home week.

Parashat: Toldot

Posted on November 19, 2025

Parashat: Toldot Genesis 25:19–28:9 “Then [Isaac] made for [King Abimelech and his advisors and generals] a feast, and they ate and drank. Early in the morning, they exchanged oaths. Isaac then bade them farewell, and they departed from him in peace. That same day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had Continue Reading »

Temple Isaiah at HoCo Pride

Posted on October 29, 2025

Temple Isaiah had a blast at Howard County Pride last Sunday! We got to connect with members of the community and see friends from TI and beyond. Our rainbow challah samples were as popular as ever, and we ran a raffle where one lucky winner won their very own loaf! Our table also had a Continue Reading »

Parashat: Noach

Posted on October 23, 2025

Parashat: Noach Torah Reading: Numbers 28:1–15 “And they said, ‘Come, let us build us a city, and a tower with its top in the sky, to make a name for ourselves; else we shall be scattered all over the world.’” — Genesis 11:4   The Torah portion (Noach) this Shabbat contains the story of the Continue Reading »

Parashat: VaYeilech

Posted on September 25, 2025

Parashat: VaYeilech Torah Reading: Exodus 32:11–14, 34:1–10 “Gather the people, men, women, children, and the strangers in your communities – that they may hear [the Torah] and so learn to revere the Eternal your God and to observe faithfully every word of this Teaching.” — Deuteronomy 31:12 The instruction here at the very end of Continue Reading »

Parashat: Shoftim

Posted on August 27, 2025

Parashat: Shoftim Deuteronomy 16:18–21:9 “TzeDeK TzeDeK TiRDoF — Justice, Justice shall you pursue, in order that you may live and come to inherit the land that Adonai your God is giving to you.” — Deuteronomy 16:20 The doubling over of the first word of this verse — TzeDeK — has fascinated generations of Jews, many Continue Reading »