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September 2024

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...

July 2024

July 29, 2024

Finding God in the Dark Places Along the Way

By Rabbi Daniel Klein '10 Parashat Maatot-Mas’ei Numbers 30:2-36:13 As we conclude the Book of...

July 23, 2024

Standing in the Breach

By Rabbi Steven Lewis, HC '11 Parashat Pinchas Numbers 25:10-30:1 "Is this a law of...

July 16, 2024

Facing the Wilderness

By Jayce Koester, Hebrew College Rabbinical Student Parashat Balak Numbers 22:2-25:9 In this week’s Torah...

July 09, 2024

Out of the Depths I Called

Parashat Chukkat Numbers 19:1-22:1 Chukkat is a portion preoccupied with loss, limitation and attempts to...

July 01, 2024

The Lost Torah of Korach

By Matthew Schultz, Hebrew College rabbinical student Parashat Korach Numbers 16:1-18:32 כי כל־העדה כלם קדשים...

June 2024

June 25, 2024

Joshua’s spies and the “zonah” in Jericho

By Joshua Jacobson Haftarat Shelach Lecha (Joshua 2:1-24) We often make assumptions about people based...

June 18, 2024

Caring is Sharing

By Rev. Tom Reid Parashat Beha'alotcha Numbers 8:1-12:16 Being a person of faith is challenging...

June 10, 2024

Outside the Camp and In Again

By Rabbi Shira Shazeer '10 Parashat Naso Numbers 4:21-7:89 A former student of mine taught...

June 04, 2024

Noting what Counts

By Naomi Gurt Lind Parashat Bamidbar Numbers 1:1-4:20 לִמְנוֹת יָמֵינוּ כֵּן הוֹדַע וְנָבִא לְבַב חָכְמָה׃...

May 2024

May 28, 2024

When Dropping Obligations is a Mitzvah

By Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman Parashat Bechukotai (Leviticus 26:3-27:34) “Neurodiversity is a movement to claim...

May 20, 2024

Proclaiming Release: Why We Need a Jubilee Now

By Rabbi Ilana Zeitman, HC '19 Parashat Behar Leviticus 25:1-26:2 My two-year-old is starting to...

May 13, 2024

Finding Elusive Joy

By Rav Hazzan Ken Richmond, HC '21 Parashat Emor Leviticus 21:1-24:23 Life as a congregational...

May 08, 2024

Fulfilling the Promise of the Mishkan

by Rabbi Daniel Klein, Dean of Students for the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College Parashat...

May 01, 2024

Dressing Toward Holiness

By Rabbi Jordan Braunig Parashat Acharei Mot Exodus 6:2-9:35 There is a familiarity to the...

April 2024

April 16, 2024

Healing the Affliction of Isolation

By Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth Parashat Metzora Leviticus 14:1-15:33 In a college creative writing class I had...

April 08, 2024

Finding Humanity Amid Randomness

By Rabbi Justin David Parashat Tazria Leviticus 12:1-13:59 Early in my years as a rabbinical...

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 05, 2024

Space on the Sofa

By Rabbi Minna Bromberg '10 Parashat VaYak’hel Exodus 35:1-38:20 “Pencils down,” the exam proctor says...

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 13, 2024

Still We Build

Parashat Terumah (Exodus 25:1-27:19) By Idit Klein, President of Keshet, a campus partner of Hebrew...

November 2023

November 01, 2023

A Divine Image Problem

By Rabbi Shira Shazeer RS ‘10 Parashat Vayeira (Genesis 18:1-22:24) “I really prefer Semitism,” one...

August 2023

August 29, 2023

If Only It Were Now

By Naomi Gurt Lind Parashat Ki Tavo (Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8) By the time we chant Parashat Ki Tavo in...

August 22, 2023

From Enemy Aliens to a Free People

By Jessica Spencer Parashat Ki Teitzei (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19) How long does it take to belong somewhere?...

August 08, 2023

Child of God, Holy and Treasured

By Rabbi Becky Silverstein Parashat Re’eh (Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17) Figuring out how to be an adult who...

July 2023

July 25, 2023

What If?

Parashat Vaetchanan (Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11) I have a tendency to think of all the worst case scenarios...

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