Quarreling Ourselves to Death
There’s no doubt that our ability to have sustained dialogue, especially constructive arguments, has severely declined.
“Weekly D’Var”
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.
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?