What a dynamic relationship we humans have with rules and order. We crave boundaries and containers into which we can…
Two Minutes of Torah
“The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant….
Who has access to God? This question looms large at the start of Parashat Bo (Exodus 10:1-13:16), in which Moses…
We know the story, or at least, we know the major detail: God speaks to Moses from a Burning Bush….
Pharaoh was, fortunately for the early Hebrews, not a brilliant military strategist. He recognized the threat that a numerous population…
On his deathbed, Jacob gathers family around in his final effort to share a vision of the legacy he will…
“With that he embraced his brother Benjamin around the neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck” (Genesis 45:14). This…
Reveals and Refocuses For most of us who follow the Torah reading and holiday cycle, the serendipity of intersecting messages…
Jacob settled, vayeishev, is a telling title for the name of our Torah portion this week. Jacob, now interchangeably known…
Excelsior! This week marked the passing of Stan Lee, the Patriarch of the Marvel Comics Empire. Like so many sons…