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.
Weekly Parsha
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.
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.