Parasha Insights

A woman noticed her husband standing on a bathroom scale, sucking in his stomach.

“Ha! That’s not going to help!” She said.

“Sure, it does.” he said. “It’s the only way I can see the numbers.”

A visitor at the British Museum asks a museum employee: "Can you tell me how old that skeleton is?"

"It is precisely 60 million and three years, two months, and eighteen days old."

"How can you know that with such precision?!"

"Well, when I started working here, one of the scientists told me that the skeleton was 60 million years old - and that was precisely three years, two months, and eighteen days ago..."

In this week’s Torah portion Yitro we … Read More »

Professor Albert Einstein: “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

When the Torah portion of Beshalach - Shira describes the splitting of the sea, it states:

And the Israelites went into the sea on dry ground, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.

But later, after the miracle has concluded, as the Jewish people sing the “song of the sea,” they state:

For the horses of Pharaoh, with his chariots and horsemen, went into the sea; and G-d turned back on them the waters of the sea, but the Israelites marched on dry ground in the midst of the sea.

There is a subtle but significant change from … Read More »