My name is Zacari Turest-Swartz. I’ve always been passionate about animals. I absolutely love them. I have two dogs and two cats. I chose to do my Bar Mitzvah project at the SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) because I wanted to help cheer up the a...

My Parsha is Chayei Sarah from the book of Genesis. I have been very lucky to have this portion as I think that there are a number of very important lessons in it.

Briefly my Parsha is about Abraham’s wife Sarah dying, and Abraham wanting to own a nice piece of land to...

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ood morning Rabbi Malcom, family, friends and congregation .

This weeks parsha is “Veyara”

This Parsha is mostly about Abraham in the desert. He has just had his bris at the age of 99 and he is recovering in his  tent.

Despite him being in pain he is waiting for guests s...

My parasha is called Ki Teitzei.  The English translation is ‘When you go out …’   and it covers many many rules written by Moses dealing with proper family relationships, ethical treatment of animals,  laws involving many aspects of daily living, justice, family respo...

My parasha is parashat Pinchas which comes from the book of Bemidbar or the book of Numbers. I will discuss two topics from this week’s parasha.

 To begin, I will start with Pinchas, son of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest. In the time of when the Jewish people were near...

HINEINI RESPONSE:

Henini. 

Here I am, standing before you.  

Called by God and this community 

to do the holy work 

of bringing our Torah, tradition & wisdom into our lives 

so that we may better ourselves, 

our community 

and the world around us.

Heneni.

I am here for you,...

Temple Israel, Cape Town, SA

July 2019 – Tammuz 5779

God spoke to Abraham:

לך לך מארצך ממולדתך אל הארץ אשר אראך

Get yourself up and go…from your land, from the place of your birth…to a land that I will show you.

Who does this?  Who gives up all that they have known…family,...

My torah portion is about a selfish man named Korach. He challenged Moses and Aaron and formed a rebellion against them. Since he only thought about himself, he was swollowed by the Earth. What I have realised is that if you only think about yourself you will be punish...

Rabbi Greg, congregation, family and friends

Thank you for joining me to celebrate my Bat Mitzvah. When a young girl reaches the age of Bat Mitzvah – 13 years in the progressive Shul, she assumes a greater maturity in her connection to her own identity. According to the...

Good Morning and Good Shabbas everyone I am Zara Tonkil and in celebration of my Bat Mitzvah I will be saying my dvar Torah on my portion, which is Vayekra. I want to speak about the sacrifices we made 2000 years ago and the ones we make in the 21st century. Such sacri...

I chose to collect my old books and donate them to a school which could make better use of them. Rabbi Greg suggested that I ask my Grade 7 class members to also donate books. I did so and they brought lots of books. I delivered them to Oranjekloof school in Hout Bay w...

Beth Silbert, from The Shine Project at Good Hope Seminary, linked some of us up with pupils to be their penpals. My penpal’s name was Imange and we wrote each other a few letters over the year. This project was part of the Grade Three’s literacy programme.

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Good morning family and friends.

My Torah portion is from the book of Exodus and it is called Bo, it is about the last three plagues, locusts, darkness and death of the first born. It also contains the rules of the holiday of Pesach.

What I would like to focus on this mo...

My Torah portion is called Vayetzei.  There is so much to grasp from it. Jacob leaves his home as he is running from is brother who is trying to kill him. He is deserted with no belongings. One night he has a dream… In his dream he sees a ladder with angels going  up a...