Matthew Eisenberg

Jan 17, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Betsy Q. Cliff |Mark K. Meiselbach |Matthew Eisenberg

What is known about this topic High-deductible health plans are an increasingly common type of benefit structure that may impact health care access, health and consumer finances. Research has been hindered by a lack of plan-level information on deductibles in administrative medical claims datasets.

Oct 27, 2023 | clevelandjewishnews.com | Matthew Eisenberg

At the beginning of this parasha the Torah teaches, “Vayomer Adonai el Avram – and the Lord said unto Abram (Gen. 12:1) . . . Lech Lecha m’artzecha u’mimoladetcha u’mibait avicha – Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto the land that I will show thee.” (Later, Abram’s name is changed to Abraham in Genesis 17:5)The great Biblical commentator, Nachmanides (1194-1270) – the Ramban – raises a terrific question. Why did the Lord decide to call to Abram?

Oct 20, 2023 | clevelandjewishnews.com | Matthew Eisenberg

On Oct. 10, 2004, Christopher Reeve breathed his last breath in the week of parshat Noach. So, a curious mind asks, is there a connection between Noach the man and Christopher Reeve the super man? The Torah teaches (Genesis 6:9) “Noah was a righteous man; he was blameless in his age; Noah walked with God.” The Midrash gives Noach credit. Noach lived in a generation of treachery and evil, and he remained honest. In that way, he was super. He built an ark.

Oct 13, 2023 | clevelandjewishnews.com | Matthew Eisenberg

Beginning the Torah reading cycle is a time of great happiness. Last Shabbat, Hamas terrorists turned a time of great happiness into a time of great sorrow. The news outlets calculate the number of our Israeli brothers and sisters murdered, injured, taken hostage and missing. Each one of those people is of incalculable value. Each one of those people was/is created in the Divine image and endowed with a soul. And so, especially now, we begin the Torah again.

Oct 6, 2023 | clevelandjewishnews.com | Matthew Eisenberg

Shemini Atzeret is first mentioned in Nehemiah. In Nehemiah 8:18, we learn, Ezra “read from the scroll of the Torah of God each day, from the first to the last day. They celebrated the festival (Sukkot) seven days and there was a solemn gathering (atzeret) on the eighth (shemini), as prescribed.”The Torah reading for Shemini Atzeret is Deuteronomy 14:22-16:17, which mentions the Shalosh Regalim (three pilgrimage festivals) although not specifically Shemini Atzeret.