Worth the Risk
I wanted to build my capacity to practice pluralism—to go beyond just thinking I “loved my neighbor like myself.”
“Weekly D’Var”
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?
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.
The Danger of Being Sure
The most spiritually advanced person is not the most spiritually confident.
Finding Your Calling In The Margins
In a world that calls for our attention in hundreds of ways each week, how do we choose where to place our focus?
The Two That Is One
Too much intensity—even when with the right intentions—in all the wrong places can be destructive.
How to Talk About the Hard Thing: Lessons from the Seder
If the seder is a model of how to tell the story of the hard thing, what can we learn from it?
A Rule to the Exception
But the rabbis have always understood that the real cleaning runs deeper than the kitchen.
Sacrifice Brings Us Closer, but Connection is Available to All
Unless one is involved in farming or kosher slaughtering, most of us are far removed from killing animals, let alone killing animals as a ritual offering to God.
God Excuses
The idea that one can invoke God and get away with anything has been around for as long as people have believed in God, and it has been a deadly dangerous idea for just as long.