Humility Can Feel Like a Lost Virtue
Miriam and Aaron show us how to fail, ask for help and grow.
We Never Stopped Telling Our Story
It binds us, like an invisible string, to generations of Jews past and future.
Freedom Starts With Self-Awareness
Before we can transform, we must see ourselves as we are. That’s a lesson of the Omer.
Reading Leviticus Like a Cookbook
After hundreds of years of slavery, the Jewish people reacquaint themselves with God.
Speaking to Two Audiences at Once
The rabbis give their visitors one answer and their students another. What gives?
Playing Holy Twister
In these unstable times, keeping our balance means leaning on community.
Don’t Let AI Write Your Sermons
Sure, technology can do it faster, but this is an art form worth preserving.
Sabbath of Coins
The perfect symbol of the two-sided, both/and, hidden/revealed quality of the season.
On Falling
There are seasons of standing and seasons of falling and both of these are held softly, somewhere, by the One.
Tu Bishvat: Trusting What We Cannot See
Just as life moves beneath the soil and sea, the Jewish holiday of trees reminds us that the world is fuller than it often appears.
Torah is Pedagogy
What if the Bible's multiple voices aren't a contradiction, but a curriculum?
Be Like the Moon
Even when we feel diminished, we have the ability to change, renew ourselves and shine.
Genesis Hangover
As we close the Torah’s first book, I feel the familiar pangs of finishing a beloved novel.