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 D’Var
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?
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?
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.