“Weekly D’Var”

With such powerfully addictive technologies, both in design and due to being socialized throughout our relational networks, we need others to be with and connect with outside of technology.

Sometimes in order to survive in exile in a hostile environment, it is necessary to disguise oneself.

Don’t use their light for anything other than basking in their glow.

In this encounter between Jacob and Esau, the closeness they achieve requires taking action, even as Jacob feels great fear and anxiety

Language – and communication as a whole – isn’t simply there to impart information.

I feel called by the Torah to play with the way that I describe how old I am.

Avram was heeding the call that God makes of each and every one of us: be willing to embrace a life of constant spiritual striving.