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Beshalach

January 29, 2021

This week we read parshat Beshalach! It’s got the splitting of the sea in it, which is gorgeously calligraphed in torah scrolls around the world and part of...

Bo

January 22, 2021

Today is the 9th of Shevat and we read Parshat Bo this week. BL_HebrewMSS @BL_HebrewMSSIn the portion "Bo" (Exodus 10:1-13:16) God sends plagues of locusts...

Vaera

January 15, 2021

Hello new friends! This newsletter was mentioned in the Trans Hallel zoom and on a queer jewish zoom events Facebook page, and now there are more people...

Shemot

January 8, 2021

before we start: fair warning, this newsletter does discuss this week’s US political events. This week’s parsha is Shemot. We’re starting the book of Exodus,...

Vayechi

January 1, 2021

Today is the 17th of Tevet and this week’s portion is Vayechi. It is also January 1st 2021! Happy (secular) new year! I gotta say when I was davening this...

Vayigash

December 25, 2020

Today is the 10th of Tevet, a minor fast (sun-up to sundown), as well as being some goyishe holiday. This week’s parsha is vayigash and the hell year is...

Miketz

December 18, 2020

Chanukah’s over but it is shabbat! Shabbat shalom! I meant to send this earlier while it was still chanukah but then the sun set really early, as it is...

Vayeshev

December 11, 2020

This week’s parsha is vayeshev: the part of the story where Joseph gets sold to Egypt and ends up in jail after the Potiphar’s wife issue. Also, januca...

Vayishlach

December 4, 2020

Hello! I am once again exhausted. But I did find many links already yesterday and today, and chanukah is coming (light the first candle on the 10th!). First,...

Vayetzei

November 27, 2020

This week’s torah portion has jacob’s ladder in it! if you fall asleep in the wilderness with a stone for a pillow maybe you will also have wild-ass dreams...

Toldot

November 20, 2020

Hello friends! Today is the 4th of Kislev, and the parsha of the week is Toldot. veronica mars but jewish @tashakaminskywho is the best patriarch/matriarch...

Chayei Sarah

November 13, 2020

This week’s parsha is Chayei Sarah. The newsletter is happening later than usual since I had to work today, so all my creative energy during the daytime went...

Vayera

November 6, 2020

Hello! Today is the 19th of marcheshvan, also known as cheshvan. The parsha of the week is Vayera. The Torah’s still hanging out with Abraham, we have the...

Lech-Lecha

October 30, 2020

This week’s parsha is lech lecha. My brain is still on some shit due to world events and job-related stress, so it’s once again mostly a disorganized...

Noach

October 23, 2020

Hello! Out here in Seattle, the temperature dropped, my bones ache, and I’m going to a zoom bar mitzvah tomorrow. This week’s parsha is Noach. I wrote an...

Bereshit

October 16, 2020

Bereshit: IT BEGINS (again). No, not the Israeli space robot that spilled a bunch of tardigrades on the moon last year, the parsha it is named after. We all...

Vezot Habracha

October 9, 2020

In the continuing “all the shabbats have holidays on them” news, tomorrow is Shemini Atzeret in addition to being the shabbat where we read Vezot Habracha,...

Sukkot!

October 2, 2020

All the holidays are on shabbat this year, it feels like. And there’s crossover with another notable calendar time in the US: daylight savings, which I...

Ha'azinu

September 25, 2020

Hello! It is 8 Tishrei 5781, and this week’s parsha is ha’azinu (aka: listen up y’all). Moses gets pretty longwinded and it’s written in two columns. We are...

29th of Elul, 5780

September 18, 2020

Normally these are titled with the parsha of the week but this time i went with Rosh Hashana, since it’s on shabbat and that means it’s its own special torah...