A Shmitah from Digital Overload
How many times do we exile ourselves from the real world around us when we decide to engage in the fabricated worlds created by our phones?
A.I.: The God We Want, but Not the God We Need
How do we move past the comfort of a false god and to strive for connection with true Divine presence?
A Teacher’s Work
It’s the kind of grace you notice more as you get older, and wish you practiced more often yourself.
The Officer in the Closet: How betraying my Hasidic father’s tradition made me the only one to carry his legacy.
My father’s silence told me there was something else, buried deep inside him, that I could not reach.
Playing by the Rules and by the Exceptions
The Torah teaches the exceptions to the rule immediately following the rule itself, which is not something it often does.
Practicing Equanimity
I’ve come to believe that the practice of composing spiritual poetry in specific forms can itself be a spiritual practice of cultivating equanimity.
Synagogue Privilege
Your website might say that you’re “warm and welcoming,” but what does that look like in practice?
The Danger of Being Sure
The most spiritually advanced person is not the most spiritually confident.
Happy Birthday Israel
Birthdays, at their best, are celebrations of unconditional love, and I believe in all that, especially today, on Israel’s birthday.
Retreating from Our Known World
How long before these breaking news headlines start to break me—or the deeper, real-er version of me?