Shavua tov! Looking forward to Shabbat Matot-Masei.

Shavua tov — a good new week to you.

Join us on Shabbat morning at 9:30am for Shabbat services led by Rabbi Jarah Greenfield.This week we’re reading from parashat Matot-Masei.

If you’d like to read some commentaries on this week’s Torah portion, here are a few:

• 2005: All the vows and Borders and land
• 2006: Vows and obligations (originally published at Radical Torah)
• 2008: Promises [Torah poem] and Downside [Torah poem]
• 2009: Spoils [Torah poem for Matot-Masei]
• 2011: The Ishbitzer on the power of purifying the imagination
• 2012: Redeeming the instructions to displace and destroy

And here are commentaries from the URJ:

• Matot-Masei

Blessings to all —

Rabbi Rachel