This week’s Torah portion, Balak, contains a very identifiable section from our morning liturgy. “How lovely are your tents, O…
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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…
Fairytales and stories are replete with perfect worlds where ideals are made manifest: ideas of beauty, concepts of justice, and…
We know that words have the power to hurt and the power to heal, and we also know that sometimes,…
This week’s double Torah portion, Achrei Mot/Kedoshim, sends a goat straight to hell in a curious ritual of expiation. Or,…
Tazria-Metzora, perhaps the most challenging parsha of the most challenging book of the Torah for us moderns. This double portion…