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June 2024

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 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 01, 2024

The Eighth Day

By Rabbi Jim Morgan Parashat Sh’mini (Leviticus 9:1-11:47) Vay’hi ba-yom ha’sh’mini—And on the eighth day...

March 2024

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...

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 20, 2024

Rejoicing in Others’ Joy

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

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 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 18, 2023

Who is Joseph?

Parashat Vayigash (Genesis 44:18-47:27) By Naomi Gurt Lind These past few parashiot, we have been...

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...

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...

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...

October 2023

October 24, 2023

Turning Curses into Blessings

By Rav-Hazzan Ken Richmond Parashat Lech Lecha (Genesis 12:1-17:27) Last week, while talking about the news...

October 16, 2023

How to Build an Ark

By Leah Carnow Parashat Noach (Genesis 6:9-11:32) Last year, I interviewed my seven-year-old nephew; we discussed...

September 2023

September 20, 2023

The Gift of Darkness

By Heather Renetzky Parashat Ha’azinu (Deuteronomy 32:1-52) In his final reminder to the Israelites about their...

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 14, 2023

Examining the Judges in Our Souls

By Rabbi Frankie Sandmel Parashat Shoftim (Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9) שֹׁפְטִים וְשֹׁטְרִים תִּתֶּן־לְךָ בְּכׇל־שְׁעָרֶיךָ אֲשֶׁר יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ נֹתֵן...

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...