Tag: Krias Shema
Why Was Yaakov Avinu Reciting Krias Shema?
In this week’s parshah, Yaakov is reunited with his son Yosef after having being separated from him for 22 years.
B’Siyata D’Shmaya
We were very excited about attending our dear nephew's aufruf (ceremony in shul the Shabbos preceding a wedding). We didn't know where we were being put up, but somehow the address sounded familiar. When we got to the house, I recognized it immediately. It was the Brooklyn office of the Hebron community in Israel. The bar mitzvah of my son, of blessed memory, had been Parshas Chayei Sarah, the Torah portion that describes how Abraham buried his wife Sarah in Hebron. His bar mitzvah theme had been "Hebron."
