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March 2026

March 23, 2026

Parashat Tzav: Keeping the Sacred Fire Burning

Keeping Up the Fire This week’s parsha opens with fire. The fire burns on the altar all...

May 2025

May 27, 2025

Coming Closer to the Divine

Parshat BaMidbar Numbers 1:1-4:20 Parshat BaMidbar ends with detailed instructions of how to properly pack...

April 2025

April 08, 2025

Constrained Freedom

By Julia Spiegel, fourth year rabbinical student Parashat Tzav Leviticus 6:1-8:36 The right to free...

April 02, 2025

Aleph: A Love Letter

Parashat Vayikra Leviticus 1:1-5:26 “Vayikra”: “And God called” (Lev 1:1). This could have been a...

March 2025

March 18, 2025

How the Work Begins

By Rabbi Frankie Sandmel Parashat Vayekhel (Exodus 35:1-38:20) There is no doubt that this year, 2025,...

February 2025

February 03, 2025

Armed with Hope

By Rabbi Max Edwards Parashat Beshalach (Exodus 13:17-17:16) Every year as we sit around the...

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...

December 2024

December 23, 2024

The Truth that Sets us Apart

By Rabbi Becky Silverstein `14 (Parashat Miketz Genesis 41:1-44:17) A few weeks ago, I was in...

September 2024

September 24, 2024

The Prophecy of Writer’s Block

Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelech Deuteronomy 29:9-31:30 It is the season of rabbinic writer’s block. Each year, those...

September 02, 2024

Amid the Toppling Towers

By Naomi Gurt Lind Parashat Shoftim (Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9) When I signed up to write a 70...

August 2024

August 05, 2024

Journeying From Sinai: Have We Overstayed Our Welcome?

By Rabbi Tyler Dratch Parashat Devarim (Deuteronomy 1:1-3:22) In her insightful book The Art of Gathering: How...

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...

January 2024

January 24, 2024

This is My God

Parashat Beshalach (Exodus 13:17-17:16) By Rabbi Frankie Sandmel I’ve been carrying an image with me...

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 11, 2023

How to Predict the Present

By Rabbi Matthew Ponak Parashat Miketz (Genesis 41:1-44:17) What a gift it would be to see...

November 2023

November 16, 2023

Possession, Envy, and Hope

Parashat Toldot (Genesis 25:19-28:9) By Naomi Gurt Lind Growing up, there was a time when one...

July 2023

July 26, 2023

Tisha B’Av, Israel, and Hope & Purpose

By Rabbi Justin David As we greet Tisha B’Av tonight, I am preoccupied by questions...

June 2023

June 27, 2023

Striking out in all the wrong places

Parashat Chukat-Balak (Numbers 19:1-25:9) Rabbi Shani Rosenbaum The sequence of parashiyot that follows us through...

August 2022

August 23, 2022

Looking for God, Eyes Wide Open

By Chaim Spaulding Parashat Re’eh (Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17) Parashat Re’eh begins with the imperative re’eh (see!), and a choice: the...

June 2022

June 22, 2022

A Biblical Body Image Problem

By Minna Bromberg, PhD, RAB `10 Parashat Shelach Lecha (Numbers 13:1 - 15:41) So close!...

June 14, 2022

Chutzpah and Healing

By Heather Renetzky Parashat Beha'alotcha (Numbers 8:1-12:16) One of the side effects of being in...

June 07, 2022

What to Make for Dinner on the Day the World Changes

by Rabbi Avi Killip Parashat Naso (Numbers 4:21-7:89) I have always been fascinated by the...

May 2022

May 30, 2022

Raising the Dead

By Rabbi Max Edwards Parashat Bamidbar (Numbers 1:1-4:20) In every season, Jews around the world count...

May 23, 2022

I’d Like to Exchange these Curses for Blessing, Please?

By Rabbi Shira Shazeer Parashat Bechukotai (Leviticus 26:3-27:34) We live in times of global pandemic; new...

May 16, 2022

The Power of Perspective

Rev. Tom Reid Parshat Behar (Leviticus 25:1-26:2) As I write this, I am sitting on a...

May 10, 2022

The Power of Exclusion

By Rabbi Jim Morgan Parashat Emor (Leviticus 21:1-24:23) When I’m teaching, I often receive feedback from...

May 04, 2022

Together or Apart? Rebuilding Holy Community Across Space

By Rav Hazzan Ken Richmond Parshat Kedoshim (Leviticus 19:1-20:27) Last week my consortium of synagogues commemorated...

April 2022

April 26, 2022

Reading, Healing & Remembering

By Frankie Sandmel Parshat Acharei Mot (Leviticus 16:1–18:30) Parshat Acharei Mot, in all honesty, evokes a...

April 18, 2022

Achron shel Pesach | At the End of Passover | A Drash in Haiku

By Naomi Gurt Lind Achron shel Pesach (Exodus 13:17-15:26) After our seders We come back...

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