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Talyah GinsbergThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Parashat Chukat, a very expensive cat, and the invisible rules that shape our lives. The Red Heifer is one of the Torah’s most frustrating ideas....
I have begun to suspect that time behaves differently in Israel. Not metaphorically. Literally. The clocks insist that sixty seconds make a minute and...
My cat Petunia is yellow where she should be pink. I wish I could tell you that this week’s thoughts on Parashat Korach emerged from deep Torah...
The former gym bunny I used to be has returned to explain why losing weight is only the beginning. I have shed 24 kilograms. This sounds impressive...
The spies didn’t lose the Land of Israel because the giants were too big. They lost it because they believed they were too small. The spies are...
People have a remarkable talent for being somewhere other than where they actually are. We stand in Shul thinking about lunch. We eat lunch thinking...
If Beha’alotecha teaches us anything, it is that human beings can survive slavery, witness miracles, receive Divine revelation, eat food delivered...
The moment you switch on LinkedIn’s “Open to Work” banner, something fascinating happens. Within hours, complete strangers begin appearing in...
Somewhere between heartbreak, solitude and survival, I stopped confusing male attention with emotional safety. At 11:43 on a Tuesday night, a married...
There’s a very specific kind of psychological collapse that happens after you hit “send” on a script you’ve spent months bleeding into. Not an...
There’s a particular kind of madness that happens in a bathroom at 7:12am. Fluorescent lighting that could double as an interrogation tactic, a...
There are people who become vegetarians after reading philosophy. Or watching lectures. Or having long, morally rigorous debates with themselves about...
There are losses you expect. And then some losses barely exist long enough to be real… and still manage to gut you. This week, I lost a dog. Not my...
Last night I tried Coronacrush speed dating, which is an algorithm-based romantic experience designed to remove inefficiency from modern dating and...
There comes a moment—usually somewhere between wrestling a bra clasp that has declared ideological independence and noticing your eyeliner has...
There is something deeply offensive about Parashat Tazria–Metzora. Not morally offensive. Psychologically offensive. Because it refuses to let you...
After the Mishkan’s dramatic debut ends in fire, tragedy, and silence, the Torah quietly moves holiness off the stage and into everyday life....
Jewish history is basically the story of tribes, exile, and the repeated discovery that somewhere else might be slightly less hostile. Which is why it...
There is a painting I cannot stop thinking about. This is mildly irritating because, at first glance, it behaves exactly as expected. A vase of...
There is a peculiar fantasy many of us carry—rarely admitted, often indulged. The day we leave a job, they will not simply nod and move on. There...
At 7:30am, there are no children on the bus. Because there is no school. There is only “the situation” — that polite, almost apologetic phrase...
Sirens outside, neurological theatre inside, and the inconvenient discovery that one’s own nervous system has a flair for drama Observations from a...
The Jewish people heard the voice of God at Sinai. Forty days later, we built a cow. Not metaphorically. Not spiritually. A literal golden cow....
Every office insists it’s a “dynamic environment.” Translation: chaos, ego, and the occasional adult tantrum performed by people who earn enough...
There is a very specific sound to déjà vu in Israel. It is not memory. It is not trauma. It is not even fear, exactly. Yesterday morning, Iran was...
When I write, things line up. Thoughts behave. Sentences do what they’re told. I can follow an idea from start to finish without losing it halfway...
The shiur last night was about bringing G-d closer into daily life.Not through mystical contortions or spiritual cosplay, but through logistics....
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