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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Sabrina Sojourner
Jul 8, 20214 min read
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...
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Sabrina Sojourner
Feb 26, 20214 min read
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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Sabrina Sojourner
Feb 5, 20217 min read
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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Sabrina Sojourner
Jan 29, 202111 min read
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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Sabrina Sojourner
Jan 22, 20219 min read
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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Sabrina Sojourner
Jan 17, 20217 min read
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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Sabrina Sojourner
Jan 14, 202111 min read
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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Sabrina Sojourner
Jan 7, 202111 min read
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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Sabrina Sojourner
Jan 7, 20214 min read
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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Sabrina Sojourner
Nov 19, 20205 min read
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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Sabrina Sojourner
Sep 18, 20201 min read
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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Sabrina Sojourner
Sep 18, 20202 min read
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
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Sabrina Sojourner
Jul 1, 20201 min read
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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Sabrina Sojourner
Jun 3, 20207 min read
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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Sabrina Sojourner
May 27, 20202 min read
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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Sabrina Sojourner
May 26, 20202 min read
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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Sabrina Sojourner
May 25, 20202 min read
Counting Omer 5780, Day 47
Hod ShebeMalkhut Exquisite Beauty, Splendor, Glory, Vigor, Magnificence, and Pomp within Foundation, Establishment, Essential; the...
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Sabrina Sojourner
May 24, 20203 min read
Counting Omer 5780, Day 46
Netzakh ShebeMalkhut Eternity, Forever, Splendor, Perpetuity, Endurance, Long-Lasting, and Spiritual Victory within Shekhinah, Majesty,...
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Sabrina Sojourner
May 21, 20202 min read
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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