Barry Leff, Author at The Neshamah Center

Shemot 5780 – The Burning Bush

This week’s parsha starts with the Jewish people enslaved by Pharaoh. Pharaoh loads the people up with cruel and pointless

A little over a week ago the United States assassinated General Qassem Soleimani, a terrorist who was the leader of

Envy is at the heart of this week’s parsha. We’re told, And Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons,

Third Beach on the Quileute Reservation in Washington is a beautiful place that really deserves a much more beautiful name.

In the birkat hamazon, the grace after meals, there’s a curious phrase: Kedoshenu kadosh YakovOur holiness is the holiness of

Bereshit bara El-him et hashamayim v’et ha’aretz, “in beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” The Torah tells us that