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Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof famously told G-d that if money is a curse, he would like G-d to smite him with it. This raises an important question....
We all take for granted that food nourishes the body and keeps us alive. But let me ask a simpleton’s question: why does physical food keeps the...
The Torah tells us not to add to or subtract from the Torah. We are to take the Torah as G-d gave it, not less and not more. If G-d told us to hang...
This is the time of year when we mourn the destruction of the two Temples in Jerusalem. Their destruction and the exile that followed had long been...
I know I speak for all of us when I say that summers were longer when we were younger. These days, it seems the snow starts falling again before it...
The Torah, our tradition teaches, was written before G-d in letters of black fire upon white fire. Yet Rabbi Moshe Sofer (the Chatam Sofer) taught a...
In this week’s Torah portion, we read of the rebellion led by Korach against Moses and Aaron. Korach’s accusation was a classic populist play: he...
In this week’s Torah portion, Shelach, we read the famous account of Moses sending spies to scout the Land of Israel. The narrative begins with a...
For millennia, the Jewish people have been buffeted by global forces. This pressure has not only manifested as oppression, expulsion, and...
The sacred tasks associated with the Tabernacle that traveled with our ancestors through the desert were divided among the families of the tribe of...
This week, we celebrate Shavuot, the day we received the Torah on Mount Sinai. It was 3338 years ago, in 2448 in the Hebrew calendar. Our ancestors...
The title of this week’s essay, “How to Talk So Children Will Listen,” borrows from the well-known parenting book by Adele Faber and Elaine...
The Torah portion we read this week is not easy to absorb. It is one of two places in the Torah where G-d describes the severe consequences of sin....
G-d asks us to journey through life believing that our fellow is golden—to see people through their strengths rather than their faults. Sadly, we...
This week’s Torah portion describes the intricate rituals of Yom Kippur. On this singular day, the High Priest entered the Holy of Holies five...
This week’s Torah portion speaks of the mysterious lesions that appeared on the skin of those who trafficked in gossip. Their punishment was at once...
When we raise the matzah at the Seder table, we are tuning into two contradictory experiences. First, we encounter the matzah as the “bread of...
When Moses arrived in Egypt after sixty years of exile, claiming that the G-d of their ancestors had summoned him to liberate the Hebrews, a...
On the first day of the month of Nissan, fifteen days before the Exodus, G-d said to Moses, “This month, you and I will be redeemed, for we will be...
What is worse than a philandering marriage therapist, an obese dietician, or a lying ethics counselor? A conceited man of G-d. The two are mutually...
Sometimes we quietly wonder whether life is fair. Others seem to glide from one simchah to the next, while our own milestones arrive tangled in...
This week, we study the vestments worn by the High Priest as he performed his service in the Temple. The High Priest represents the epitome of...
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