Parshat Shemot - Guest Column from Hadar! - 12/31/25

We are thrilled to share with you some words of Torah from our friends at Hadar, an institute for Jewish life, learning, and practice. I will be learning along with you this week while I am off, and we can discuss our learnings over wine and cheese on Friday!

- Rabbi Hannah

Back in Parashat Bereishit, we saw the ultimate brotherly betrayal: unresolved fratricide (Genesis 4). As we saw at the beginning of our weekly learning together this year, the murder of Hevel by Kayin may not be an event we can push to the side as a marginal act of a deranged criminal. Instead, we traced an arc in Sefer Bereishit where we might all claim this murderer as our patriarch, this fratricide as a formative part of our very own lineage...

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-Rabbi Avital Hochstein