D'vrei Torah

 (Midrashim)

We hold our Saturday morning Shaloha Shabbos services on the last Shabbat of the month. During our Board meeting, early in the month, one of us volunteers to write and deliver the upcoming Shabbat d'var Torah (words of the Torah), a traditional teaching and learning commentary on the portion of the week. Some of us call it a midrash.  A midrash (midrashim is the plural), or drush, was any of a group of Jewish commentaries on the Hebrew Scriptures compiled between A.D. 400 and 1200 and based on exegesis, parable, and haggadic legend.  In our services, it is an interpretation of the section of Torah being read on that Shabbat. The volunteer reads his d'var Torah or drush to the olam after the Torah reading. The following is a list of  d'vrei Torah given on these Shaloha Shabbos Saturday mornings by members of our Kona Beth Shalom Congregation. 

The Board of Trustees of KBS does not review nor edit these commentaries, nor are the commentaries edited before they posted on the KBS website. Thus, the opinions expressed in the posted commentaries are those of the individual presenters and not necessarily those of the Board of Trustees of Congregation Kona Beth Shalom. We welcome all the varieties of Jewish experience.

To go to the text of any davar Torah click on the blue lettered title.

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Table of Contents

A PRAYER FOR SHABBOS MORNING

By Morty Breier, October 29, 1994

 

SILENCE!! (Yom Kippur)

by Yehudah Plaut, October 2, 2006

 

THE STRANGER WITHIN (Yom Kippur)
By Yehudah Plaut, October 13, 2005

 

CREATION (BERESHITH)

By Gloria Blum

 

CREATION (BERESHITH)

By Barbara Lewis, October 25, 2003

 

NOACH

By Shaul Janes

 

LECH LECHA (Genesis 12:1-17:27)

by Gloria Blum, October 23, 2004

CHAYEI SARAH (Sarah's death to Abraham's death at the age of 175)
By Morty Breier, October 29, 1994

CHAYEI SARAH
By Gloria Blum, November 19, 2005

KI SAVO (Moses' last address to the Israelites)
By Morty Breier, November 4, 1995

VAYYISHLACH (Jacob is given the name Israel, God-Wrestler)
By Morty Breier, Nov. 27, 1999

VAYISHLACH
By Shari Berman, November 27, 2004

VAYESHEV
By Joel Gimpel, December 24, 2005

VAYIGASH (Joseph and his family are reunited)
By Morty Breier, December 26, 1998

COMMENTARY ON THE LIFE OF JOSEPH
By Morty Breier, December 28, 1996

VAERA

By Larry Kane 

 

VAERA

By Joel Gimpel

SHMOT
By Judi Steinman, December29, 2007

EXODUS
By Marshal Blann, December 28, 2002

BO (the last three plagues)
By Sierra Manker, January 27, 2007

A Parent's Words to a Bat Mitzvah
By Marci Manker, January 27, 2007

MEMORIAM FOR JERRY AND JUDY ROTHSTEIN (Tu B'Shvat)
By Yehudah Plaut,   January 30, 2005

YITHRO
January 25, 2003, 

YITHRO
By Shari Berman, January 29, 2005

TETZAVEH  (God instructs the Israelites on how to construct the Sanctuary)
By Morty Breier, February 22, 1997

KI THISSA
By Morty Breier, February 22, 2003

VAYAKEHEL / PIKUDEI
by Judi Steinman  on March 25^th 2006

TZAV (Directions to the Priests)
By Morty Breier, March 30, 1996

TSAV: BUILDING A FENCE AROUND THE TORAH
By Yehudah Plaut, March 26, 2005

PESACH - PASSOVER
By Morty Breier, March 27, 1999

KEDOSHIM, THE GOLDEN RULE AND TZEDAKAH
By Ben Plaut, May 7, 2005 (Bar mitzvah d'var Torah)

KEDOSHIIM
By Dr. Barry Blum, May 5, 2008

ON BECOMING A BAR MITZVAH
By Yehudah Plaut, May 7, 2005

BEMIDBAR - Order from Chaos (The beginning of the Book of Numbers)
By Morty Breier, May 25, 2001

NASO (The laws and regulations given in the wilderness of Sinai)

By Lorraine Highkin Forman, May 25, 2002

 

BECHUKOT

Barbara Lewis, May 28, 2005

 

BECHUKOTAI
by Judi Steinman, May 24, 2008

 

MIKETZ (Joseph comes to power under the Pharaoh)
By Morty Breier, Jun. 16, 1998

SHELACH (The Israelites are made to wander in the desert for 40 years)
By Morty Breier, June 23, 1995

SHELACH LECHA
By Ruth Bernstone, June 25, 2005

CHUKAT & BALAK (The last stages of the Israelite's journey to the promised land)
By Morty Breier, June 26, 1999

PINCHAS
By Jacob Salzburg, July 23, 2005

CHUKKAT (Includes the famous Red Heifer enigma)

By Joel Gimpel, June 30, 2001

 

DEVARIM

By Joel E. Gimpel, July 28, 2001  

 

DEVARIM
By Alex Nealy,  July 29, 2006

 

V'ETCHANAN
By Garnett Puett, August 20, 2005 (Bar mitzvah d'var Torah)

 

EIKEV 

By Joel E. Gimpel, July 27, 2002

DOVARIM (Deuteronomy 11:26 - 16:17) WHAT MAKES A JEW?
By Morty Breier, August 26 2000

KI TETZE
By Joel Gimpel, August 28, 2004  

RE'EH

Joel E. Gimpel, August 23, 2003

SHOFTIM
Joel Gimpel, August 26, 2006

KI TAVO
Shari Berman, September 24, 2005

HAAZINU
Joel E. Gimpel, September 29, 2001  

 

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