“Nachamu, nachamu ami — find comfort, find comfort my people. Your term of service is over; your iniquity expiated,” the…
Two Minutes of Torah
Have you ever noticed how a story’s details can morph slightly from telling to telling? It’s a trick of our…
Jewish tradition makes use of many different names for God dependent upon situation and desired outcome. Offering prayers or making…
One might imagine, given his long history of leadership and thin pretext for not entering the Promised Land, overwhelming malevolence…
This week’s Torah portion, Balak, contains a very identifiable section from our morning liturgy. “How lovely are your tents, O…
To fly off the handle. To go ballistic. To blow one’s lid. To lose it. We have many idioms in English for…
In this week’s Torah portion, Korach, two divergent models of leadership are presented. The leadership of Korach, in the words…
There’s nothing like the unknown to amplify fear; and there’s nothing like the wilderness to amplify the unknown. Our parsha this…
Success is not a zero-sum game. While theoretically we might understand that “a rising tide lifts all ships,” we tend…
Upon first glance, this week’s parsha, Naso, could appear to be a somewhat dry account of an Israelite census. The…