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.
Weekly Parsha
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.
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.
Two Responses to the Enigma of the Parah Adumah (Red Heifer)
We should have the humility to recognize the limits of our understanding and acknowledge the mysterious and secret quality of deep wisdom and complex truths.
The Urim and Tummim vs. A.I. Predictions
One of the hallmarks of artificial intelligence is that we humans can’t understand how and why it makes its decisions.
Shared problems, shared solutions
When you feel your heartstrings tug at the suffering of the world, can you ask: Who is doing this work already? How can I support them?