An Ancient Parable for Jewish Pluralism: Floating Alone, Anchored Together
We can find a warning against intolerance and a model for pluralism in an ancient midrashic parable.
“Weekly D’Var”
Contentment Without Complacency
How could we navigate this tension between accepting what is and articulating what might need to change?
Happiness Begins With Great Questions
His podcast offers listeners access to a great map room, one that contains the intellectual and spiritual maps others have used as they charted their own courses to happiness and the good life.
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.
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.
