Rabbi Marc Soloway

Rabbi Marc Soloway

Rabbi Marc Soloway has been the spiritual leader of Congregation Bonai Shalom in Boulder, Colorado since 2004. He traveled to Ghana with an AJWS Young Rabbis Delegation in 2011 and was the narrator of a documentary film about the Baal Shem Tov, made in the same year. Marc has been twice co-chair of Limmud in the UK and was a founding board member of Limmud Colorado. He was a fellow of CLAL's Rabbis without Borders in 2012 and is the chair of the Rabbinical Advisory Board for Hazon, as well as a proud member of Jewish goat and chicken farming co-ops. Marc was listed in The Forward as one of America's most inspiring rabbis for 2014. Marc can be reached at rabbi@bonaishalom.org.

Pinchas

A shocking and inspiring episode in Parashat Pinchas occurs when the five daughters of Zelophechad stand up to Moses, Aaron and Elazar and demand to inherit their father’s property, in the absence of any sons. This courageous act, which challenges the assumption that tribal land can be passed on only from fathers to sons, seems to leave Moses speechless and moved, and he takes their claim to God.

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