“Occasionally… what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.” These…
Two Minutes of Torah
Difficult moments in leadership During these High Holy Days rabbis across the world take the opportunity to share their words…
It is a jarring ride through the Torah during the Yamim Noraim. We read special selections like the Binding of…
Standing on the precipice, the entire community gathers. Our weekly Torah portion, Nitzavim, mirrors much of our High Holy Day…
Blessings and Curses. So much of the theology embedded within our text wants us to believe in a binary existence…
Remembering and Forgetting In this week’s parasha, Ki Teitzei, Moses offers the Israelites a number of instructions, including the instruction…
Love in Elul This Shabbat, we enter the month of Elul, the full month of preparation necessary to make the…
How do we pass our values onto our children? In Parshat Eikev Moses outlines the imperative for the Israelites to…
Parshat Va’etchanan is packed with good stuff. We read both the words of the Shema and the Ten Commandments. In…
Last week’s parasha ends with a quite gruesome event. Pinchas, who is of the priestly family, sees an Israelite man…