Recharge

Remembering how we've suffered in the past helps us cultivate gratitude for the blessings we have right now.

God doesn't demand that we apportion ourselves into little pieces, some parts of which are publicly acceptable and the rest hidden away.

Teshuvah is not a confrontation with some frightening otherness, but with ourselves.

The mitzvah of the Jubilee year is a chance to begin again.

What we experience in our early years informs every aspect of who we are.

If ritual is to create a shared language across the generations, we must ensure the Judaism we practice is recognizable both to our ancestors and descendants.

Fire can be destructive or constructive as well as a tool for connecting with the divine.

What we regret shows what we value

Jewish tradition suggests that dreams awaken the imaginative faculty without which prophecy is impossible.

After a month filled to the brim with ritual observance, the Hebrew month of Heshvan invites us to holy stillness.

In an era of predictive ideology, Judaism maintains that humans are endowed with free will.

For the ancient Israelites, the Yom Kippur rituals signified a world in which God brought moral order out of chaos.