Wilderness Parsha

A Half-Shekel For the Environment

This coming Shabbos brings us the first of the arba parashot—the four Torah portions that come before Pesach—Shabbat Shekalim. Shekalim is the plural form of shekel. This all starts...

Uncategorized, Wilderness Parsha

Re’eh: Gratitude for Trail Magic

For there will never cease to be hungry hikers on the trail. Every class of thru-hikers on any of our long trails comes with stories of how the “trail will provide.” The...

Appalachian Trail, Wilderness Parsha

Matot-Masei: Promises

This parsha contains the most voluminous treatment of vows in Torah. In common parlance, we think of a vow (in the Hebrew, neder) as a commitment made using G-d’s name. We ascribe...