Explore the role that language plays in our personal, religious, and spiritual lives, by challenging assumptions about core areas of speech like prayer (is it supposed to be effective?) gossip (is it really bad?), and telling the truth (is it necessary?). Recorded in Summer 2026. Source sheet: https://mechonhadar.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/mh_torah_source_sheets/WeissLanguageLensPart42026.pdf

Explore the role that language plays in our personal, religious, and spiritual lives, by challenging assumptions about core areas of speech like prayer (is it supposed to be effective?) gossip (is it really bad?), and telling the truth (is it necessary?). Recorded in Summer 2026. Source sheet: https://mechonhadar.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/mh_torah_source_sheets/WeissLanguageLensPart42026.pdf

Explore the role that language plays in our personal, religious, and spiritual lives, by challenging assumptions about core areas of speech like prayer (is it supposed to be effective?) gossip (is it really bad?), and telling the truth (is it necessary?). Recorded in Summer 2026.&nbsp;Source sheet: https://mechonhadar.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/mh_torah_source_sheets/WeissLanguageLensPart42026.pdf

R. Dena Weiss: Language As a Lens: Prayer (Part 4)

Purim: The (Unexpected) Peoplehood Holiday

Parashat Terumah: Divine Fire in Our Homes - The Intimacy and Mystery of the Menorah

Parashat Mishpatim: You Are the Perpetrator

Parashat Yitro: Shamor and Zakhor

Parashat BeShallach: Walking through the Heart of God

Parashat Bo: Commemoration or Reenactment?

Parashat Va'Era: Living in the Double Exposure

Parashat Shemot: Gratitude and Liberation

Parashat VaYechi: Seeing in Genesis

Parashat VaYigash: The Meanings of Approach

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