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Yechiel Shaffer

Aug 21, 2017, 10:26 PM

Mt. Grizzim: A Response to Charlottesville

I wonder these days how much fear controls our lives and thoughts. Many of us will remember the fear we felt during the first intifada… Do we still travel to Israel? Do we take buses once we are there? Do...

Jul 12, 2017, 9:41 AM

1Book1PJC: A Summer Reading Project

In concluding my first week as Rabbi of the PIkesville Jewish Congregation (www.pikesvillejewish.com), a young, and fairly new community nestled in the heart of the large Baltimore Jewish community, I'm enamoured by the next generation of Jews leading this...

Jun 29, 2017, 6:28 AM

Goodbye OZ Part II

Read part 1 here Why did Moshe construct another affirmation of Aharon’s leadership through the blossoming of his Staff? Surely the obliteration of Korach and his Edah was enough? Rabbi Lord Sacks, in one of his most classic Divrei Torah suggests that the...

Jun 26, 2017, 6:56 PM

Goodbye OZ

On completing three years as the assistant rabbi of Congregation Ohab Zedek, this past Shabbat we exchanged our final goodbye wishes. Over the next week, I plan to share here various moments of my last farewell wishes. On what was...

About Me

Formerly the Assistant Rabbi of Cong. Ohab Zedek in NYC, and The Hampton Synagogue, Rabbi Yechiel Shaffer is the new Rabbi of the Pikesville Jewish Congregation, in Baltimore, MD.