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December 2025

December 08, 2025

Color Theory: What Joseph’s Coat Reveals

By Rabbi Adina Allen Parshat Vayeishev (Genesis 37:1-40:23) In his seminal work The Theory of Colors,...

August 2025

August 18, 2025

The Source of Our Joy (Simcha)

By Rav Rachel Adelman, Hebrew College Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible Parashat Re’eh Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17...

August 14, 2025

Four Freedoms

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

July 2025

July 01, 2025

Reflecting Our Merits

Parshat Hukat Num 19:1-22:1 In the beginning of the second aliyah of Parshat Hukat, following...

June 2025

June 16, 2025

Relating to the Collective

Parahat Sh'lach Numbers 13:1-15:41 When I take a moment to pick my head up out...

June 11, 2025

Elevating Sparks in the Desert of Life

By Risa Dunbar In the summer of 2011, I spent six weeks in Israel on...

April 2025

April 30, 2025

Ancient Healthcare, Contemporary Humility

Parashat Tazria Leviticus 12:1-13:59 Chapter 13 of Leviticus lays out prescriptions for addressing tzara’at (often...

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 10, 2025

The Enigma of Incense: Lessons from Parshat Ki Tisa

Stirring Ingredients By Alyssa Coffey, Hebrew College rabbinical student Parshat Ki Tisa Exodus 30:11-34:35 Towards...

February 2025

February 24, 2025

The Mishkan and Purim’s Insights for an Uncertain World

By Rabbi Daniel Klein, Hebrew College Rabbinical School '10 Parashat Terumah Exdodus 25:1-27:19 As we...

February 11, 2025

A Whole People of Whole People

Parashat Yitro Exodus 18:1-20:23 One of my favorite Yiddish folk songs begins "un mir zaynen...

January 2025

January 22, 2025

Reverential Doubt

By Rabbi Genevieve Greinetz Parashat Vaera Exodus 6:2-9:35 A few days ago, I returned from...

December 2024

December 17, 2024

Success on Our Way; an Alternative to the Prosperity Gospel

By Rav Hazzan Ken Richmond, Hebrew College Rabbinical School '21 Parashat Vayeishev Genesis 37:1-40:23 As...

December 10, 2024

Planting the Seeds of Potential

By Rabbi Heather Retnezsky '24 Parashat Vayishlach Genesis 32:4-36:43 In a parasha filled with high...

December 02, 2024

What the Sigma, Jacob?

By Rabbi Shira Shazeer '10, Hebrew College Rabbinical School Parashat Vayetzei Genesis 28:10-32:3 Working with...

November 2024

November 25, 2024

From Conflict to Creation: Rebecca’s Question and Our Own

Parashat Toldot Genesis 25:19-28:9 In this week’s Torah portion, we encounter Rebecca, our matriarch, in...

November 19, 2024

An Appreciation at Our Matriarch’s Burial Place

Parashat Chayei Sarah Genesis 23:1-25:18 When I read the opening verses of Chayei Sarah, my...

November 12, 2024

“Say you are my sister…”
In the House of Abimelech

By Rav Rachel Adelman, Hebrew College Faculty Parashat Vayera Genesis 18:1-22:24 This is a dark...

November 05, 2024

They Say: There is a Land

Parashat Lech Lecha Genesis 12:1-17:27 The land that I imagine when I read God’s promise...

October 2024

October 30, 2024

Asking More of Noah

By Rabbi Frankie Sandmel '22 Parashat Noach Genesis 6:9-11:32 In 5785, a story about a...

October 21, 2024

Beginnings: Divine & Human

Parashat Bereshit Genesis 1:1-6:8 This is a season of beginnings. Not only did we just...

October 15, 2024

Finding the Etrog’s Beauty

By Rafi Ellenson Sukkot For many years, I could hardly stand to enter a synagogue...

October 07, 2024

Teshuvah Through Tears

By Rabbi Jessica Spencer '24 Yom Kippur The Talmud tells a story of a rabbi...

October 01, 2024

Meditation on Wild Things

By Naomi Gurt Lind, Hebrew College Rabbinical Student Parashat Ha’azinu Deuteronomy 32:1-32:52 The night Max...

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 18, 2024

Harvesting Simcha

Parashat Ki Tavo Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8 Parashat Ki Tavo outlines more of Moses’ instructions to the...

September 10, 2024

Sowing with Tears, Reaping with Shouts of Joy?

By Rav Rachel Adelman, Hebrew College Faculty Haftarat Ki Tetzei Isaiah 54:1-10 The recent events...

August 2024

August 27, 2024

When We’re Rested

By Julia Spiegel, Hebrew College Rabbinical Student Parashat Re’eh Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17 Two weeks ago, I...

August 19, 2024

On Attending to Rain

By Deborah Anstandig, Hebrew College Rabbinical Student Parashat Eikev Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25 It rained nearly every...

August 12, 2024

A Yearning of the Heart

By Rabbi Avi Killip '14 Parashat Vaetchanan Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11 Standing in line at the CVS...

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