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    • May 11, 2019
    • 3 min

    Lurking within is the Holy Urge

    Parshat Toldot 1 F WE COULD X-RAY OUR HEARTS — NOT THE fist-sized muscle, but the pulsating center from which our dreams and desires...
    • May 11, 2019
    • 3 min

    a SLOW bURNING eXPLOSION LIKE THE sUN

    Parshat Shmot SOMETIMES, THINGS GET WORSE before they get better. Sometimes, things get worse even as they are getting better— as...
    • May 11, 2019
    • 3 min

    War Damage

    Parshat Naso Who fought the first religious war? The answer, according to Genesis, is Cain and Abel: "Cain brought an offering to the...
    • May 11, 2019
    • 4 min

    gATEWAY OF THE pERSECUTED

    Parshat Vayetze Jacob, escaping his murderously angry brother, more or less stumbles unto "the gates of heaven," described laconically in...
    • May 6, 2019
    • 7 min

    Power to the People

    Torah' for Israel's Jubilee May 1998 (first published Jerusalem Report) For 50 years, Israelis have allowed the state to shape their...
    • Apr 29, 2019
    • 4 min

    Jewish Intimacy: Nitzavim VaYelech

    Losing God and Finding Him is Part of What it Means to be a Jew GOOD NEWS: WE ARE NOT THE FIRST generation to be fraught with alarm over...
    • Apr 4, 2019
    • 1 min

    parshat hashavua

    this is about the Torah portion of the week So here will be all kinds of writings from the Torah portion of the week.
    Freedom, climate change and the Pandemic
    michaodenheimer
    • May 10, 2020
    • 7 min

    Freedom, climate change and the Pandemic

    “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” So begins Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book “The Social Contract.” I’ve been thinking...
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    Micha Zvi Odenheimer
    • Dec 19, 2019
    • 5 min

    Language, Prayer, Compassion, Interpretation

    Happy Chanuka! What follows are some words of Torah that I offered on Saturday night in honor of the 25th anniversary of the passing of...
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