But You Forgot That I Was a Seed
What Moses comes to teach us, then, in his final and most powerful sermon, is that there is no use in looking backward if we don’t use it to drive us forward.
“Weekly D’Var”
Station Stops and Sensing the Wow
I’ve shifted my understanding to see grace as the power planted within us to stop and sense the wow.
Seeing the Person in Peoplehood
The best communal leader is the one who appreciates that the community is made up of unique individuals, and that collective success demands attention to each of those individuals as they are.
No Reason? No Problem!
The discovery that happens in the space where there is no explicit answer has immense application for the world of organized religion.
Quarreling Ourselves to Death
There’s no doubt that our ability to have sustained dialogue, especially constructive arguments, has severely declined.
Beyond Burned Bread: Connecting Creativity to the Divine
Perhaps the rabbis have kept the requirement to take challah (chafrashat challah) so that we would remember that human creative endeavors also have their source in divine good will.
Worth the Risk
I wanted to build my capacity to practice pluralism—to go beyond just thinking I “loved my neighbor like myself.”
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.