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    Some are Guilty, But All are Responsible.
    Sabrina Sojourner
    • Jan 16
    • 5 min

    Some are Guilty, But All are Responsible.

    Remarks from Kabbalat Shabbat, 13 Sh’vat 5782 at Kol Shalom Rockville, MD In this week’s parashah B’Shallach, after celebrating the...
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    Enough Is Enough
    Sabrina Sojourner
    • Jul 9, 2021
    • 4 min

    Enough Is Enough

    This week’s parashah is Matot-Masei (Tribes-Marches). Totally 244 verses and covering a wide range of events and topics, this double...
    18 views1 comment
    T'tzaveh Sh’mot/Exodus 27.20-30.10:                         It’s Complicated![1]
    Sabrina Sojourner
    • Feb 26, 2021
    • 4 min

    T'tzaveh Sh’mot/Exodus 27.20-30.10: It’s Complicated![1]

    Summary and Commentary: This week's parashah, T'tzaveh—(you) shall instruct—is the 8th parashah of Sh'mot and the 20th of the Torah. It's...
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    Yit'ro Sh’mot/Exodus 18.1 – 20.23 Summary and Commentary with a Social Justice and Reflective Lens
    Sabrina Sojourner
    • Feb 5, 2021
    • 7 min

    Yit'ro Sh’mot/Exodus 18.1 – 20.23 Summary and Commentary with a Social Justice and Reflective Lens

    Yit'ro is the fifth parashah of Sh'mot, the seventeenth of the Torah, and the shortest of all the parshiyot. It begins with the return of...
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    B’shalakh Sh’mot/Exodus 13.17–17.16 Summary & Commentary through a Social Justice & Reflective Lens
    Sabrina Sojourner
    • Jan 29, 2021
    • 11 min

    B’shalakh Sh’mot/Exodus 13.17–17.16 Summary & Commentary through a Social Justice & Reflective Lens

    B’shalakh is the fourth parashah of Sh’mot and the 16th of the Torah. It begins with Pharaoh banishing us from Egypt. Of course, The...
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    Bo-Sh’mot/Exodus 10.1-13.16 Summary and Commentary through a Social Justice and Reflective Lens
    Sabrina Sojourner
    • Jan 22, 2021
    • 9 min

    Bo-Sh’mot/Exodus 10.1-13.16 Summary and Commentary through a Social Justice and Reflective Lens

    Bo, the third parshah of Sh'mot and the fifteenth of the Torah, presents the final three signs from the Eternal: locust, touchable...
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    Listening to the Heart
    Sabrina Sojourner
    • Jan 17, 2021
    • 7 min

    Listening to the Heart

    Beth El Montgomery County Sisterhood/Zhava Shabbat Resnik Memorial Lecturer, Shabbat Sh’mot Martin Luther King Weekend, January 16, 2021...
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    Va-eira Summary and Commentary through a Social Justice and Reflective Lens
    Sabrina Sojourner
    • Jan 15, 2021
    • 11 min

    Va-eira Summary and Commentary through a Social Justice and Reflective Lens

    Va-eira (and I appeared) is Sh'mot's second parashah and the Torah’s fourteenth. The Eternal continues to cultivate an intimate...
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    Parashat Sh’mot: Summary and Commentary through a Social Justice and Reflective Lens
    Sabrina Sojourner
    • Jan 7, 2021
    • 11 min

    Parashat Sh’mot: Summary and Commentary through a Social Justice and Reflective Lens

    Sh'mot (names) is the Hebrew name for the book of Exodus and its first parashah, the 13th parashah of the Torah. The first paragraph...
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    Vayigash Sh'mot / Approaching Sh’mot
    Sabrina Sojourner
    • Jan 7, 2021
    • 4 min

    Vayigash Sh'mot / Approaching Sh’mot

    In the Summer of 2019, I was approached by the Institute for Jewish Spirituality to be one of five women commentators on the Torah for...
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    The Endless Reservoir
    Sabrina Sojourner
    • Nov 19, 2020
    • 5 min

    The Endless Reservoir

    This week’s parshah is Tol’dot (25.19-28.), the sixth parashah of Breisheet/Genesis and the Torah. It begins with וְאֵלֶּה תּוֹלְדֹת...
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    Avinu Malkeinu for This Time
    Sabrina Sojourner
    • Sep 18, 2020
    • 1 min

    Avinu Malkeinu for This Time

    Avinu Malkeinu, open our hearts so that we will see all the things we have been unwilling to see, and grow in humility and compassion....
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    Waiting for Angels, Signs, or Messengers
    Sabrina Sojourner
    • Sep 18, 2020
    • 2 min

    Waiting for Angels, Signs, or Messengers

    Why is this one of the stories we read on Rosh HaShanah? Because it is a reminder of the fragility of life, and because Yitz’khak’s life is
    21 views0 comments
    Torah Scroll Love
    Sabrina Sojourner
    • Jul 1, 2020
    • 1 min

    Torah Scroll Love

    I miss each and every Torah scroll I had the pleasure of Leyning Rolling Teaching from Carrying to each congregant to Touch Kiss Touch...
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    How to Properly Count Jews
    Sabrina Sojourner
    • Jun 3, 2020
    • 7 min

    How to Properly Count Jews

    Throughout the Torah and the Talmud there are lots of numbers. One of the most famous numbers is 600,000.
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    Counting Omer 5780, Day 49:
    Sabrina Sojourner
    • May 28, 2020
    • 2 min

    Counting Omer 5780, Day 49:

    Malkhut shebeMalkhut Foundation, Establishment, Essential; the Cosmological and Mystical Foundation upon which the Divine One created the...
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    Counting Omer 5780, Day 48
    Sabrina Sojourner
    • May 27, 2020
    • 2 min

    Counting Omer 5780, Day 48

    Y’sod ShebeMalkhut Foundation, establishment, setting the foundation, fundamental; foundation upon with The Divine One created the...
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    Counting Omer 5780, Day 47
    Sabrina Sojourner
    • May 26, 2020
    • 2 min

    Counting Omer 5780, Day 47

    Hod ShebeMalkhut Exquisite Beauty, Splendor, Glory, Vigor, Magnificence, and Pomp within Foundation, Establishment, Essential; the...
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    Counting Omer 5780, Day 46
    Sabrina Sojourner
    • May 25, 2020
    • 3 min

    Counting Omer 5780, Day 46

    Netzakh ShebeMalkhut Eternity, Forever, Splendor, Perpetuity, Endurance, Long-Lasting, and Spiritual Victory within Shekhinah, Majesty,...
    4 views0 comments
    Counting Omer 5780, Day 43:
    Sabrina Sojourner
    • May 21, 2020
    • 2 min

    Counting Omer 5780, Day 43:

    The Seventh Week of Counting Omer we examine our relationship to the nature of Malkhut (מלכות), the 10th Sephirah on the Kabbalistic Tree...
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