A “drash” or “d’var Torah” is a brief talk illuminating some part of the week’s Torah portion or some other Jewish text. 
To “drash,” from the Hebrew “lidrosh,” literally means to seek, as in seeking wisdom or meaning.

If you are interested in giving a d'rash for Shabbat, or leyning (chanting Torah) please email Kolotnik Rabbi Max Zev Reynolds at mackenzie.zev@gmail.com.

To add a d’rash to the page, please contact Communications Coordinator Rudy Malcom at RudyMalcom@kolotchayeinu.org.

Genesis

The Torah of Race: A Developing Text, An Ongoing Conversation - Bereishit (and Shemot and Vayikra) by Kolot Chayeinu, 2012-2016

Bereishit by Ellen Lubell, October 14, 2017

Noakh by Mike Cockrill, October 21, 2017

Lech Lecha by Ann Cheng and Lisa Zbar, November 9, 2019

Trans Day of Remembrance - Chayei Sarah by Rabbi Max Zev Reynolds, November 23, 2019

No Longer A New Darshan! - Vayetzei by Gregg Alpert, November 25, 2017

Race Working Group B-Mitzvah Shabbaton - Vayishlach by Imani Chapman, Roberta Samet, and Autumn Leonard, December 14, 2024

Va-Yeshev by Sharon Jaynes, December 21, 2019

Vayigash by T Wise, January 4, 2020

Exodus

Shemot by Talia Baurer, January 17, 2020

Shemot by Arthur Strimling, January 6, 2018

Torah of Race - Shemot

Va'era by Adam Jacobs, January 25, 2020

Terumah by Josh Rubin, February 9, 2019

Ki Tisa by Sierra Mohamed, February 23, 2019

Vayakhel-Pekudei by Josh Rubin and Olivia Hay-Rubin, March 25, 2017

Leviticus

Torah of Race - Vayikra by Students at Hebrew College’s Yom Iyyun on Race, March 2014

Tsav by Ellen Gruber Garvey, March 23, 2019

Behar by Adam Jacobs, May 25, 2019

Numbers

Naso by Ellen Gruber Garvey, May 26, 2018

Beha'alotcha by Nicole Fix, June 22, 2019

Korakh by Fred Bernstein, June 16, 2018

Khukat by Stacey Simon, June 23, 2018

Pride - Khukat by Rabbi Max Zev Reynolds, June 23, 2018

Balak by then–Rabbinic Fellow Miriam Grossman, June 30, 2018

Balak by Rabbi Emerita Ellen Lippmann (her final drash to Kolot Chayeinu), June 30, 2018

Deuteronomy

Nitzavim by Lisa Zbar, September 9, 2018

Ha'Azinu by Gregg Bordowitz, October 12, 2019

High Holy Days

A Four-in-One Woman Drash - Rosh HaShanah Day 1 5780 by Imani Chapman, September 30, 2019

Don't Jump Behind the Fence: Reflections on M4RJ, Whiteness and Isaiah - Yom Kippur 5778 by Franny Silverman, September 30, 2017

Erev Rosh HaShanah 5777 by Rabbi Emerita Ellen Lippmann, October 2, 2016

Erev Rosh Hashanah 5778 by Adam Jacobs and Tabitha St. Bernard-Jacobs, September 20, 2017

Race, Racism, and Kolot Chayeinu - Erev Rosh HaShanah 5773 by Rabbi Emerita Ellen Lippmann and Ernst Mohamed, September 16, 2012

Rosh HaShanah Shofar Service 5780 by Yael Ezry, September 30, 2019

Torah of Race - Rosh HaShanah 5773, September 17, 2012

Yom Kippur 5776 by Adam Jacobs, Autumn Leonard, Ernst Mohamed, and Roberta Samet, September 22, 2015