Devarim

Devarim:
Timeliness and a Different Kind of Rebuke

A Time To Mourn? (in support of women's scholarship)
Contrition Crying

Burdens and Strifes - A Call for Respectful Conflict Resolution

Lacking Nothing - a Path to Life Success
The Good Report of the Spies?!? A Tisha B'Av lesson
Baseless Hatred is never Baseless - how do we move past it?
Looking to the Past and to the Future
The Right Leaders Appoint the Best Leaders
How to Judge - a pre Tisha B'Av thought
Eichah - Where are you man? - A pre Tisha B'Av focused thought
Victory That Comes from Doing God's Will - May God Bless and Protect the Soldiers of Israel!
The Vision of Chazon

Blaming Others? Not a Good Idea

Va'Eschanan:
"You Have Too Much" - Many Interpretations of What God Told Moshe
Moshe's Non-Entry to the Land, in his own words
Seek and Ye Shall Find

Does Our Life Have a Purpose? It Depends on How You Look at it
Blessing of Being Spread Across the Globe
Blaming When It's No One's Fault

Aseres HaDibros - Hidden in Plain Sight
Shema Bears Repeating - the true creed of Judaism
Merits of Performance - Why observance of Tisha B'Av is a strong indicator of where your Judaism is headed
Moshe's Failure - A new look at Moshe's given reason for not entering the Land of Israel (an important lesson for educators and parents!)
Don't Add or Subtract from the Torah - Do What's Right
A Great, Wise, and Understanding People? Right...
You Are All Alive Today

How the Shepherd Comforts
Knowing God... Is it Possible?

Eikev:

Shkoiach, Yashikoiach, Y'yasher Kochakha

God's Everlasting Connection to the Jewish People
Everyone, Shlita - the blessing of lengthened days
Remember, And Don't Forget

A Relationship With the Almighty
The Right to Glory Over our Achievements?
Doing Right For God Yields Just Rewards
Appreciating the Greatest Gifts of All

"A Simple Matter"
Avoiding Getting Lost: A proposal for Education Overhaul (and response to article in Jewish Press)
It starts With Love - building the relationship with God
To Remove All Illnesses
Disapproval of Bad Behavior - aftermath of week of different kinds of violence in Israel summer 2015
Reflective Lessons - Humble Details - The message of Moshe's personal Ark

Three Themes - Observance, Avoiding Stubbornness, Loving Israel (a Bat Mitzvah Message)

Re'eh:
Seeing is Knowing. Not Seeing is Believing
The Place God Has Chosen - Is it time for the Beit Hamikdash?
A Communal Priority - In support of the teachers in the trenches
Our Father Who Lives Forever
Capital Punishment is Mercy
Genocide in the Torah - Disturbing, While Also Completely Theoretical
Remember that You Were a Slave
What is the Connection Between Shmittah and...?

Tempering Craving Through Yirat Shamayim
To Sell, or To Give? Increasing Holiness through unloading Neveilah

Elevating Eating

The Holiness of Avoiding Milk/Meat Combinations
Joy On Holidays and At Other Times As Well
Giving Our Service of God a Boost

Shoftim:

Pursuing Justice
The Tree in Me (connections between appointing judges and planting asheirah trees)
On the Blindness of Justice and Morality (related to Gaza war of Summer 2014)
Elements of a Class on Shoftim

Towards a Working Definition of a To'evah 

Zaken Mamre and Civil Discourse
It's Good to Be the King - some thoughts on economics
Being King-Like in Getting Close to God and Man
Bringing Back Majesty
Can't Go to War Without Reaching the Beginning
Toevot - Abominations, with a focus on the blemished animal
Being Tamim With God
Tamim = a Complete Education
Justice Justice You Shall Pursue

Overcoming Fear and Eradicating Evil
The Middle Road
A Prophet Like Me
Intermarriage Education


Ki Setze:
Taking Judaism Seriously Means Opting In - not viewing mitzvos as "optional"
The Battlefields of Life
Hanging the Body After Execution
Baby Birds and their Mother - Shiluach HaKen
Baby Birds Follow Up
Punishment That Can Change a Man - How ולו תהיה לאשה benefits a woman
Returning Lost Items and Making Sure People Don't Get Lost
Jewish Honor Killings

The Process of Eradicating Infractions
The Community of God

The Sensitivity of Chalitzah
Keep Your Word, Keep the Torah!
Getting Rid of the Evil Among Us
No Male Moabites - Forgive and Move On - times and circumstances change, teaching a powerful lesson
So Many Mitzvos - How Can We Be Most Observant?

Ki Savo:
Hitting in Secret
Warnings, Curses, and Different Tribes  and Part II
Closing Remarks - Moshe's conclusion to his great speech
Stone's Reminders, Accepting the Torah, Connecting with God - comparing instructions to Yehoshua's follow-through
It'll Drive You Crazy
Simcha: The Art of Joyous Living

To Be Blessed in the Most Incredible Way
Warnings Help Us Prepare
To Walk In His Ways - The Mitzvah of Being Like God

Sinai in Reverse? Listening and Doing Empowers Self Improvement
Defining Dignity - Living in the Image of God

Blessing Comings and Goings
Believing/Living With all of Your Heart
Clarity of Consequences
Making Most of Life or... Dropping the Ball
This Day

Nitzavim:
Holy Aspect of Jewish Peoplehood
Choices We make - Life and Good vs Death and Bad
Short Thought re September 11
Hypocritical Thinking - teshuva related
Using the Heart and Mouth to Get Closest to God
Where God is Found
Uncovering the Heart for Repentance

Being Bound to an Eternal Covenant
Choosing a Relationship With God
Heart and Mouth as an Opportunity to Connect (using the same verse, but a different approach)
What Makes Something Jewish?


Vayelekh:
Going When It's Time
Putting on a Good Face
Perfecting Ourselves - the benefits of repeating important messages
A Gathering to Unite - If Only... - On the mitzvah of Hak'hel and what it means today

Hakhel and Teshuvah

Reverence for a Sacred Space and the Torah

Ha'Azinu:
Lashon Hara - Easiest of Sins

The Poetry of Haazinu
Modeling is Teaching - How modeling proper behavior is the best way to teach children and others
Raising Children Can't Be Pawned Off to Others!

We Can and Should Purge Our Demons
Understanding Moshe's Punishment (not because of the rock)
On Becoming Remarkable Jews, and a Perspective on the Judgments of the High Holidays

Mneumonic of Haazinu's Aliyahs, Seeing God in the Teshuva Process

V'Zos Habracha:
Eight Verses