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Back to SearchR. Micha'el Rosenberg on Tu Bishvat: “The One Who Brings Forth”
Tu Bishvat has become a day on which many Jews express gratitude for the earth and its bounty. In this sense, it is closely connected to the practic…
1 year, 4 months ago
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Beshallah: Ghosts in the Haggadah
The Exodus from Egypt is, in one way of telling it, a ghost story.
This is not the usual genre we assign to the tale. We describe it as a story of li…
1 year, 4 months ago
R. Aviva Richman: Defining Da'at: A Jewish Perspective on Artificial Intelligence
In a time of abounding artificial intelligence, we will attempt to define what makes intelligence "non" artificial. Our jumping-off point will be the…
1 year, 4 months ago
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Bo: Telling God’s Story
Whose story do we tell on the Seder night?
The answer, at first, seems obvious: the story we tell is our own, the story of our deliverance from slaver…
1 year, 4 months ago
R. Shai Held: Psalm for Tuesday
The psalms attached liturgically to each day of the week are often mumbled over quickly, without much attention to their meaning. In this series, we'…
1 year, 4 months ago
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Va'Era: Remembering Who We Are
After Pharaoh's first refusal, after the Jewish people's burden increases because of his words, Moshe can't imagine redemption.
1 year, 4 months ago
R. Micha'el Rosenberg on MLK Day: A Mighty Stream
One of the most memorable and impactful lines of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream Speech” is his invocation of the prophet Amos …
1 year, 4 months ago
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Shemot: Choosing Hope
Women’s wombs lie at the heart of the Exodus.
1 year, 5 months ago
R. Miriam-Simma Walfish and R. Deborah Sacks Mintz: Nigun Hannah
The narrative of Hannah in Tanakh paints the picture of a yearning journey through prayer as dynamic expression - one of varied posture, volume, inte…
1 year, 5 months ago
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Vayehi: “Am I My Brother’s Keeper?”
It is easy to forget that the end of Bereishit is a surprise ending.
So used to the fact that all twelve sons and their descendants are included in th…
1 year, 5 months ago