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...
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- 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.
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