Tazria/M’tzora has arrived. It is gruesome. It is cringy. It is alienating. From the biblical perspective, humans constantly vacillate back…
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I have a very clear childhood memory of riding in my big sister’s Jetta, hand-crank windows rolled down, singing the…
When have you felt like a part of something bigger than yourself? What did you feel in that moment? This…
The lead up to Passover was traditionally one of the few times in which rabbis offered extended “sermons.” Some, I’m…
We enter into the most densely packed and archaic book of the Torah this week, the book of Leviticus. I…
Where do you go to find something that is everywhere? If it is everywhere, shouldn’t you be able to access…
What do we do with our broken pieces? So many of us hide away our hurts, shy away from them,…
What if the ner tamid, the eternal light that burns in every synagogue the world over, the symbol of God’s…
“And let them make me a sanctuary, so that I may dwell among them (Ex 25:8).” ועשו לי מקדש ושכנתי בתוכם V’asu li mikdash…
It is an understandable mistake to assume that the revelation of the 10 commandments in last week’s Parashat Yitro reflects…