August 2016 – The Neshamah Center

Ekev 5776 – “If you obey these commandments…”

Ekev is a great name for this week’s parsha. It means “will follow.” It’s the same as the word for

Rav Barry giving the invocation at the Birmingham City Council meeting on August 23, 2016

On this day, 2,602 years ago, the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed for the first time. On this day, 1,946

This second part of this week’s Torah reading, Masei, begins with a bit of a travelogue. Eleh masei v’nai Yisrael,