REVERB: A Weekly Torah Takeaway
AN INTRODUCTION
October 2008
Beginnings: I have just arrived in Jerusalem, Israel to begin a year-long Sabbatical. It will be, I hope, a year of reconnection, introspection and focused writing. I intend to document this journey, and invite you to join me on this road trip as I chart this year on a weekly basis, action by action, verb by verb. Each week I will pluck a verb from the Torah portion and set it reverberating both with its context and with my own. I hope you will join me with questions ,answers and comments and make this a conversation.
It starts, as always, in the beginning:
- HOPE (Bereshit)
- GET OUT (Noah)
- LOOK UP (Lech Lecha)
- RUBBERNECK (Vayera)
- FALL (Chayei Sarah)
- SCREAM (Toldot)
- DREAM (Vayetze)
- SHUT (Vayishlach)
- SIT (Vayehsev)
- SHAVE (Miketz)
- WEEP (Vaigash)
- BURY (Vayechi)
- SPEAK UP (Shmot)
- DELIVER (Vaera)
- BLESS +WALTZ (Bo)
- ARM (bshalach)
- CHOOSE (Yitro)
- READ (Mishpatim)
- SANCITFY (Teruma)
- DRESS (Tetzave)
- REVEL (Ki Tisa)
- GATHER (Vaykhel-Pikkudei)
- CALL (Vayikra)
- SCRUB (tzav)
- OPEN (Passover – NOT Parsha)
- HUSH (Shmini)
- COUNT (tazria Metzora)
- LOVE (Achrei Mot-Kedoshim)
- CURSE (Emor)
- REMEMBER (B’har- B’chukotai)
- GUARD (Bamidbar)
- HEAR (Naso)
- DESIRE (B’halotcha.)
- DESCRIBE (‘Shlach Lecha’)
- Protest (Korach)
- SING (Chukat)
- SIN (Balak)
- LEAD (Pinchas)
- TRAVEL (Matot Masey)
- BELIEVE (Dvarim)
- WRITE (Va’etchanan)
- THANK (Ekev)
- DEMOLISH (Re’eh)
- FORGIVE (Shoftim)
- BURY (Ki Tetze)
- TRANSLATE (Ki Tavo)
- WITNESS (Nitzavim Vaylech)
- ENTER (Haazinu)
- KISS (v’zot Habracha)
