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Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan lives and works in Berkeley, California. He can be reached at [email protected].

Based on detail from "Miriam Shut Out From The Camp" by James Tissot, ca. 1900, which shows a scene from this week's Torah portion.
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This week’s Torah portion offers insights on suicide 

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan April 16, 2021April 15, 2021
(Photo/Wikimedia-Olaf.herfurth CC BY-SA 3.0)
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Your Shabbat table is magic. No, really. The rabbis said so.

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan February 26, 2021February 25, 2021
Moses at the Burning Bush by James Tissot
Posted inTorah

Impatient for justice? Congratulations — you’re human

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan January 8, 2021January 7, 2021
A renaissance painting of two people, one of them Esau, speaking while crouched over a small flame
Posted inTorah

A saga that begins with strife and ends with hope

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan November 20, 2020November 19, 2020
(Photo/Flickr-zeevzeev CC BY 2.0)
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Under the sukkah with the Rabbi of Chelm, the city of holy fools

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan October 2, 2020October 1, 2020
Chelm is a town known in European Jewish folklore as a community of holy fools. (Illustration/F. Halperin's "Khakme Khelm," Warsaw, 1926)
Posted inTorah

Live from Chelm: Online class provides some virtual wisdom from a mythical shtetl

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan August 14, 2020August 14, 2020
Detail from "The Death of Korah, Dathan and Abiram" by Gustave Doré, 1865
Posted inTorah

Bad apples come from bad barrels

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan June 26, 2020June 25, 2020
(Photo/Flickr-lawriecate CC BY 2.0)
Posted inTorah

The Torah on telling truth from falsehood

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan May 8, 2020May 8, 2020
an antique drawing of a great cloud hovering over the mishkan with israelites worshipping
Posted inTorah

Two little biblical letters that ‘mean nothing but express everything’

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan March 20, 2020March 19, 2020
"Moses Speaks to Pharaoh" by James Tissot, ca. 1900
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In a divided present or in ancient Egypt — what is the cost of freedom?

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan January 31, 2020January 30, 2020

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