Equilibrium And Expiation
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On Parshat Tezaveh, Mrs. Shira Smiles discusses the priestly garments and how clothes define a person’s function and mission.
Series: Living the Parsha 5774
Assertiveness And Attachment
Posted onMrs. Shira smiles gives us insight into Parshat Balak.
Timna’s Trajectory
Posted onon Parshat Vayishlach, Mrs. Shira Smiles discusses Timna, the concubine of Elifaz, and the lessons we can learn from her.
Present Presence
Posted onOn Parshat Pekudei, Mrs. Shira smiles discusses the correlation between building the mishkan and building a mini sanctuary in our homes.
Modeling And Mindfulness
Posted onOn Parshat Ki -Tavo, Mrs. Shira Smiles discusses following in Hashem’s ways and how practicing the mitzvot facilitates an outpouring of blessing from above.
Cryptic Concealment
Posted onOn Parshat Shemot, Mrs. Shira Smiles discusses the meaning behind Moshe hiding his face when Hashem spoke to him from the burning bush.
Transmitting The Tradition
Posted onMrs. Shira smiles gives us insight into Parshat Emor .
Rainbow Rays
Posted onOn Parshat Noach, Mrs. Shira Smiles discusses the covenant of the rainbow that Hashem made after the Great Flood.
Accountability And Accessibility
Posted onOn Parshat Nitzavim, Mrs. Shira Smiles addresses the question: If Hashem tells us that teshuva and Torah are so close, why does it seem so far away to us?
Mindset, Movement, and Modeling
Posted onOn Parshat Bo, Mrs. Shira Smiles discusses man’s role on this world. While the results are up to Hashem, man is meant to toil to reach the tzurat ha’adam, the perfected human form Adam was before the sin.
Jubilee Jubilation
Posted onOn Parshat Behar, Mrs. Shira Smiles gives us insight into the Yovel (jubilee) year and the purpose of sounding the shofar on Yom Kippur of the fiftieth year.
Gauging Goodness
Posted onOn Parshat Chayei Sara, Mrs. Shira Smiles discusses the verse, “The life of Sarah was one hundred years and twenty years and seven years, these were the years of the life of Sarah,” in particular Rashi’s explanation which says that all of her years were equally good.
Figuring The Future
Posted onMrs. Shira smiles gives us insight into Parshat Pinchas.
Bona Fide Bones
Posted onOn Parshat Beshalach, Mrs, Shira Smiles discusses Moshe’s act of taking the bones of Yosef out of Egypt.
Sweet And Sour
Posted onMrs. Shira Smiles discusses Parshat Vayikra.
Blindness and Brachos
Posted onOn Parshat Toldot, Mrs. Shira Smiles discusses the deeper meaning of Yitzchak’s blindness.
Hail to the Hail
Posted onOn Parshat Va’eira, Mrs. Shira Smiles discusses the plague of hail and how Moshe had to go to a world above the heavens to bring down the miraculous seemingly paradoxical hailstones.
Cautionary Closeness
Posted onMrs. Shira smiles gives us insight into Parshat Smemini.
Trail Travails
Posted onOn Parshat Vayera Mrs. Shira Smiles discusses the odyssey of Hagar and Yishmael in the desert.
Haphazardness and Happenstance
Posted onOn Parshat Bechukotai, Mrs. Shira Smiles gives us insight into the verse, “If you behave casually towards me then I too will behave casually towards you.” The class further discusses how a Jew must make spiritual pursuits the focal point of his life.
Presence And Presents
Posted onOon Parshat Lech-Lecha, Mrs. Shira Smiles discusses Avraham’s legacy of faith.
Super Sensitivity
Posted onOn Parshat Mishpatim, Mrs. Shira Smiles discusses the verse, “You shall not taunt or oppress a stranger for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” The class examines the great weight placed in heaven on being sensitive to the feelings of others.
Discord Discovered
Posted onMrs. Shira smiles gives us insight into Parshat Korach.
Majestic Maidservants
Posted onOn Parshat Vayetzei, Mrs. Shira Smiles discusses the role of the maidservants, Bilha and Zilpa, and why they were not counted among the Imahot.
Making Majestic Moments
Posted onOn Parshat Ki Tisa, Mrs. Shira Smiles discusses how to bring the beauty and joy of Shabbat into the home.
Influence And Inference
Posted onMrs. Shira smiles gives us insight into Parshat Chukas.
Ceding The Cedar
Posted onOn Parshat Vayigash, Mrs Shira Smiles discusses the significance of the cedar wood that Yaakov brought down to Egypt which was later used to build the Mishkan in the desert.
Enough Or Extra
Posted onOn Parshat Vayakhel, Mrs. Shira Smiles discusses the donations the Jewish people brought to the Tabernacle. There is never anything superfluous in one’s service of Hashem . The process of giving of ourselves and of our material wealth for spirituality may have started with our ancestors, but it continues to this day.
Gigantic Goodness
Posted onMrs. Shira smiles gives us insight into Parshat Shlach.
Wondrous Whisper
Posted onOn Parshat Vayechi, Mrs. Shira Smiles discusses the meaning of the verse, “Baruch shem kavod malchuto l’olam v’aed,” which the children of Yaakov recited at his deathbed.