Torah portion
Spiritual “Hearing”
To what are we enslaved? How does our slavery hold us back, nailed to the doorpost? And what would we ...
Holidays Down South (With a Little Help from Technology)
Holidays are always prime family time. My whole family goes to my grandparents’ house for pretty much every holiday, and ...
Humble Audacity
Commentary on Parshat Noah, Genesis 6:9-11:32After the great flood, all of humanity shared a single language and lived together in ...
Simchat Torah… With a Little More Torah This Time
Many of my most formative experiences and Jewish-identity-markers have had two things in common: they were highly competitive, and involved ...
Daughters of Change
This week’s Torah portion (Parshat Pinhas) is one of the two in which Serach, the daughter of Asher, the son ...
In Our Own Sight
As parents, we want to see our kids succeed in all facets of life – whether that is getting into ...
The Beginning of the End
The summer months usher in vacations from school and shul. We tend to lose the weekly Torah portions from Shavuot ...
“That I May Dwell Among Them…”
In this week’s Torah portion (Parshat Terumah, Exodus 25:1-27:19), God instructs Moses how Israel should make the sanctuary. He tells Moses, “וְעָשׂוּ ...
What Do You Do When You Are Betrayed?
You have shared some of your intimate emotional struggles with a colleague and close friend. Very soon afterward you lose ...
The Cruelty of a Cheeseburger
This week’s Torah portion commands us to swear off cheeseburgers. Well not exactly. It was the rabbis that created the ...