Ah, parshat Ki Tavo; another in the litany of blessings and curses that will befall our Israelite ancestors (and us)…
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Parshat Ki Teitze: The Sin of Indifference Amidst the melange of mitzvot in this week’s portion (typical of portions in Deuteromony) we…
As someone who is not a lawyer or a legal historian, I take for granted the notion that our judges…
Choice The T.V. show The Good Place imagines an afterlife where after a person dies, they are sent to either…
Deuteronomy is hard. I’m having a particularly tough time with it this summer of pandemic and social upheaval and discord…
The human soul is complex. It can hold within it both hatred and love, desire and disgust, compassion and scorn;…
Recounting our Journeys Jewish time operates in cycles; we cycle through reading the entire Torah in a year, and in…
A scene in Fiddler on the Roof goes as follows: One person makes a statement and the main character Tevye…
Have you ever smacked a vending machine when the candy or soda you bought did not fall to the bottom…
The parshiot in the book of Numbers/Bamidbar reflect the deep discord that happens between humans when the heat, both literal and metaphorical,…