Submitted by Rabbi Ellen Lippmann on Mon, 12/19/2011 - 15:17
I gave this d’var Torah at Kolot Chayeinu on Vayeishev, on December 17, 2011/21 Kislev 5772. I followed it with a blessing for those who had come up for the Torah aliyah; that blessing follows the d’var Torah text.
Submitted by Rabbi Ellen Lippmann on Wed, 11/23/2011 - 16:10
The Hebrew word for "give thanks," or "give praise" is "hodu," which, with slightly different inflection, is also the word for Turkey (the country) which then lends its name to the bird, a tarnegol hodu, a Turkey rooster.
