Exodus 35

Two Cows, Atonement, and Glory

How does atonment work? This teaching for Shabbat Parah (The Sabbath of the Cow) and Shabbat Ki Tssa (story of the golden calf) upends most conventional ideas about how atonement was accomplished on the cross.

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Covid-19 Shabbat at Home

The birth pangs of the Messiah! So what now? Whether your quarentined, under mandatory lockdown, or just stuck at home for Shabbat, here's a teaching about how to make the best of the Shabbat at home experience.

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Shabbat Candles: The Little Lights that Shine Throughout the World

Every Friday evening, as the sun is about to sink below the horizon, Jewish women around the world light candles. We are welcoming Shabbat, the weekly Sabbath. The glow of Shabbat candles is one of the most iconic and nostalgic images in the Jewish mind

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Enter My Rest

Three possible interpretations of Psalm 95:11 prepare us for understanding the discussion in Hebrews 3:7ff regarding the generation in the wilderness that did not enter into God's rest. An important preface to the Sabbath discussion of Hebrews 4.

Psalm 95:11 says, "Therefore I swore in my wrath, 'They shall not enter my rest.'" The Book of Hebrews quotes this verse and interprets it in three possible directions: