Parshat Eikev, Part 2, Guarding the Symbol of Faith
The ubiquity of the Ten Commandments on the two tablets in Jewish folk art attests to...
The ubiquity of the Ten Commandments on the two tablets in Jewish folk art attests to...
As discussed two weeks ago in Parshat D’varim the Book of Deuteronomy is a second r...
The fifth book of Moses, which we begin reading this Shabbat, is commonly known as De...
It’s not often that we get a talking animal in the Bible. In fact, Balaam’...
Last week I posted a possible interpretation of the strange ritual of the Parah Aduma...
Of all the impurities discussed in the Torah, tuma’at hamet – impurity due to...
“The Week One Flag Went Down and Another Went Up” is how ABC news put it...
I’m pretty sure that it’s safe to say that for us Jews, the first superhe...
The second portion of this week’s reading gives us a chance to talk about what ...
In a few hours from now, the mourning of Memorial Day will give way to the celebratio...
One of the most painful and heartbreaking narratives in the Hebrew Bible was read las...
Millenia before there were mobile apps, centuries before each day symbolized a diff...
My Facebook and Twitter feeds are full of links to articles about how bad things are ...
Last Shabbat we read a catalogue of sacrificial offerings that an Israelite might bri...
Anyone who is asked or expected to speak about the weekly Torah portion knows that th...
Is Valentine’s Day good, or bad, for the Jews? Of course, I’m not really ...
For some, religion happens mostly in the synagogue, church, mosque or temple and even...
How do I know that this is really God talking to me? Will the people even listen to w...
Can you do it? Are you able to go off the grid, refrain from using Facebook, Twitter,...
With Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday commemoration and the recent theatrical ...
The ten plagues brought by God upon the Egyptians were a serious matter. Water and fo...
At times there seems to be so much around us that needs fixing. We try to do what we ...
As I mentioned last week, the lovely image featured in a Mizrah printed in the United...
A major theme in the book of Genesis, which we finish reading this Shabbat, is that t...
I have only now discovered a Hebrew language blog, Am Hasefer, where Rabbi Avishai...
We all tell the story differently. Whatever it was that happened to us or whatever it...
The Torah represents a culture that doesn’t easily forget. From the sibling riv...
Storytelling is so much of who we are, what we do and how we figure out how to live. ...
“I’ve been here for five months now and I still say ‘wow!’ ev...
The Jewish practice of liturgical blessings provides a wonderful tool for creating a ...