WWOT: Weekly Words of Torah

WWOT – Parashat Ki Tavo

Posted on August 27, 2018

To inspire, guide, engage, enrich, and empower Conservative Jewish Women By Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields, Executive Director, Women’s League For Conservative Judaism As we study this week’s Torah reading, Parashat Ki Tavo, we might think that we are at a very traditional Passover Seder. We can hear words that include the section of the Haggadah Continue Reading »

WWOT – Parashat Ki Tetzei

Posted on August 20, 2018

To inspire, guide, engage, enrich, and empower Conservative Jewish Women By Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields, Executive Director, Women’s League For Conservative Judaism Parashat Ki Tetzei truly shows how much our Torah has changed over the years. Deuteronomy, chapter 21, verse 15, says, “If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and both the Continue Reading »

WWOT – Weekly Words of Torah: Parashat Shoftim

Posted on August 13, 2018

To inspire, guide, engage, enrich, and empower Conservative Jewish Women By Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields, Executive Director, Women’s League For Conservative Judaism     Enter any Jewish attorney’s office, and you will most likely see some sort of artistic rendition of the verse Tzedek, Tzedek Tirdof — Justice, justice you shall pursue (Deuteronomy 16:20) from this week’s Torah Continue Reading »

WWOT – Weekly Words of Torah: Parashat Re’eh

Posted on August 6, 2018

To inspire, guide, engage, enrich, and empower Conservative Jewish Women By Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields, Executive Director, Women’s League For Conservative Judaism The book of Deuteronomy is a review of the previous books of the Torah, and this week’s Torah reading, Parashat Re’eh, has many portions that seem repetitious. One section, which has previously been read in the Continue Reading »

WWOT – Weekly Words of Torah: Parashat Eikev

Posted on July 31, 2018

To inspire, guide, engage, enrich, and empower Conservative Jewish Women By Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields, Executive Director, Women’s League For Conservative Judaism This week’s Torah Reading, Parashat Eikev, includes the second paragraph of the Shema, the section which begins, “V’haya Em Shamoah,” Deuteronomy, chapter 11, verses 13 through 21. This paragraph states that, if one observes Continue Reading »

WWOT – Parashat Vaetchanan

Posted on July 19, 2018

To inspire, guide, engage, enrich, and empower Conservative Jewish Women By Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields, Executive Director, Women’s League For Conservative Judaism This week’s Torah reading, Parashat Vaetchanan, contains both the Ten Commandments and the Shema. A classic discussion of the Ten Commandments is which of the ten are the most important? Everyone has their opinion, Continue Reading »

WWOT – Weekly Words of Torah: Parashat Devarim

Posted on July 16, 2018

To inspire, guide, engage, enrich, and empower Conservative Jewish Women By Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields, Executive Director, Women’s League For Conservative Judaism This Shabbat, we begin a new book of the Torah, the fifth and final book, Sefer Devarim, the book of Deuteronomy, with the Torah reading by the same name, Parashat Devarim. The book Continue Reading »

WWOT – Weekly Words of Torah: Parashat Matot-Maasei

Posted on July 9, 2018

To inspire, guide, engage, enrich, and empower Conservative Jewish Women By Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields, Executive Director, Women’s League For Conservative Judaism This week, we finish Bamidbar, the book of Numbers, with the double portion of Parashat Matot-Maasei, which tells the story of the five daughters of Tzelophechad, who had no brothers. When they asked Continue Reading »

WWOT – Weekly Words of Torah – Parashat Pinchas

Posted on July 2, 2018

To inspire, guide, engage, enrich, and empower Conservative Jewish Women By Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields, Executive Director, Women’s League For Conservative Judaism When people think of Parashat Pinchas, this week’s Torah Reading, perhaps one might think of the overzealous man named Pinchas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, who killed an Israelites and Continue Reading »

WWOT – Weekly Words of Torah: Parashat Balak

Posted on June 25, 2018

To inspire, guide, engage, enrich, and empower Conservative Jewish Women By Rabbi Ellen S. Wolintz-Fields, Executive Director, Women’s League For Conservative Judaism I am pretty sure everyone is very familiar with this week’s Torah Reading, Parashat Balak, since our Torah Fund pin and theme this year, “Mah Tovu,” originates from a verse in this week’s Torah Continue Reading »