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April 2026

April 21, 2026

The Holy Art of World Building

By Hannah Limov Parshiot Achrei Mot-Kedoshim (Leviticus 16:1-18:30, 19:1-20:27) Dreaming is serious business. I spent...

September 2025

September 29, 2025

Ha’azinu: To Be Witnessed

Parashat Ha’azinu (Deuteronomy 32:1-52) By Gila Axelrod In Parashat Ha’azinu, Moses delivers a poetic final...

August 2025

August 14, 2025

Four Freedoms

By Adam Zemel Parashat Eikev (Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25) Parashat Eikev sees Moses continuing his long farewell address...

March 2025

March 03, 2025

People of the Story

Parashat Tetzaveh (Exodus 27:20-30:10) By Adam Zemel Tetzaveh begins when God pauses dictating instructions for the Tabernacle...

January 2025

January 02, 2025

The Patriarch who wasn’t a Patriarch

By Rabbi Michael Shire Parashat Va-Yiggash (Genesis 44:18-47:27) What makes a Patriarch a patriarch? What...

March 2024

March 26, 2024

Ecstasy Burns Away Meanness

Parashat Tzav (Leviticus 6:1-8:36) The last book that Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote was a 300+ page...

March 13, 2024

(Re)Arranging A World of Chesed

Parashat Pekudei (Exodus 38:21-40:38) By Risa Dunbar Last May, I moved all of my belongings into...

February 2024

February 27, 2024

No Milk & Honey without You

By Rabbi Jessica Kate Meyer '14, Hebrew College Artist in Residence and Rosh Tefila Parashat...

February 20, 2024

Rejoicing in Others’ Joy

By Rabbi Danny Stein, Hebrew College Rabbinical School '23 Parashat Tetzaveh Exodus 27:20-30:10 We learn...

February 06, 2024

Of Tractors and Tolerance

Parashat Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1-24:18) By Rabbi Max Edwards, Hebrew College Rabbinical School '21 Parashat Mishpatim...

January 2024

January 31, 2024

The Broken Promise

Parashat Yitro (Exodus 18:1-20:23) by Jessica Spencer, Hebrew College Rabbinical School '24 How do we...

January 16, 2024

Chasing Darkness

Parashat Bo (Exodus 10:1-13:16) By Rabbi Tyler Dratch Two weeks before Pesach this year, those...

January 08, 2024

Don’t Let Our Heavy Hearts Grow Hard

Parashat Vaera (Exodus 6:2-9:35) By Rabbi Jordan Braunig Last week, while discussing something that had...

January 03, 2024

When The Narrow Place Is Refuge

Parashat Shemot (Exodus 1:1-6:1) By Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman In the middle of my house,...

December 2023

December 03, 2023

We Are Still In Mourning

Parashat Vayeshev (Genesis 37:1-40:23) By Rabbi Avi Killip We are still in mourning. In the...

November 2023

November 21, 2023

How Awesome and Terrible Is This Place

By Chaim Spaulding, Hebrew College Rabbinical Student Parashat Vayetze (Genesis 28:10–32:3) Last winter, I went...

February 2023

February 13, 2023

Moses and Joshua Halfway up the Mountain

By Rafi Ellenson Parashat Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1-24:18) It was as a teenager in a dingy hotel...

January 2023

January 10, 2023

The Borrowed Son

By Naomi Gurt Lind Parashat Shmot (Exodus 1:1-6:1) PROLOGUE I was sitting in a women’s Torah...

November 2022

November 22, 2022

Why Is It? Why This?!

Parashat Toledot (Genesis 25:19-28:9) Among the many crises that have been developing over the last several...

November 07, 2022

Drawing out the Tender Side

Parashat Vayeira (Genesis 18:1-22:24) Time barrels on as the seasons change and the natural world...

October 2022

October 19, 2022

The Best is Yet to Come

By Leah Carnow Parashat Bereshit (Genesis 1:1-6:8) “Bet is two / … Bet is second chances...

October 12, 2022

Defining Enough

By Rabbi Becky Silverstein Sukkot (Leviticus 22:26-23:44) The Fall 2021 issue of Yes! Magazine is the “The How...

September 2022

September 06, 2022

The Mitzvah of Forgetting

Parashat Ki Teitzei (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19) By Rabbi Neal Gold Parashat Ki Teitzei falls when the...

August 2022

August 17, 2022

But Dust and Ashes We Are

By Rabbi Adina Allen Parashat Eikev (Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25) We should each hold two slips of paper...

August 10, 2022

Seeds of Consolation: Open-Eyed Torah for a Friend

By Naomi Gurt Lind Parashat Vaetchanan (Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11) For Lea Andersen, of cherished memory Parashat...

August 01, 2022

Responding to Failure with Perseverance

By Rabbi Daniel Klein Parashat Dvarim (Deuteronomy 1:1-3:22) As we begin the Book of Deuteronomy...

July 2022

July 26, 2022

Matot Masei — Meeting God “In the Straits”

By Rabbi Ebn Leader Parashat Matot Masei (Numbers 30:2-36:13) With Parashat Masei—The Journeys—the Torah concludes the story...

July 19, 2022

Find Your Semicha

By Rabbi Jessica Kate Meyer Parashat Pinchas (Numbers 25:10-30:1) The transmission and transition of leadership...

July 12, 2022

Not Looking Away from Our Pain

By Rabbi Tyler Dratch Parashat Balak (Numbers 22:2-25:9) There’s an image that has been floating...

July 05, 2022

Keeping Safe and Letting Go

By Naomi Gurt Lind Parashat Chukat (Numbers 19:1-22:1) There is nothing like preparing to send...

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