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Back to SearchR. Tali Adler on Parashat Vayigash: Learning to Re-Read Our Dreams
As he approaches the man that he thinks is the viceroy, entrapped in the massive lie that Yosef has arranged, Yehudah begins to tell the truth.
It has…
1 year, 5 months ago
R. Micha'el Rosenberg on 10 Tevet: The Road to Destruction
Asarah b’Tevet (10th Tevet) commemorates the beginning of the siege of Jerusalem in the lead-up to the destruction of the First Temple, a blockade th…
1 year, 5 months ago
R. Micha'el Rosenberg: The True Story of Hanukkah
Growing up as the only Jew in my class in Iowa, I got lots of practice telling the story of Hanukkah. The story of the oil that was only enough for …
1 year, 5 months ago
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Mikeitz: Bringing Dinah Home
By the time Yosef reaches Egypt, he is one of a long list of lost children in the Abrahamic family. It’s a family that has always been made up of ins…
1 year, 5 months ago
Rabbis Yitz Greenberg, Shai Held and Tali Adler: The Triumph of Life, and of Love
Over the past year, Rabbis Yitz Greenberg and Shai Held each published major works in Jewish thought, The Triumph of Life and Judaism Is About Love, …
1 year, 5 months ago
R. Tali Adler on Parashat Vayeishev: Despair Meets Hope
In order to understand why Yehudah does not want Tamar to marry Shelah, his youngest son, after his first two sons die, we need to understand who Yeh…
1 year, 6 months ago
R. Micha'el Rosenberg: Righteous Anger Part 3
From the Talmud to the Rambam and into the modern period, Rabbinic tradition generally views anger negatively. Anger appears as a kind of weakness, a…
1 year, 6 months ago
R. Tali Adler on Parashat VaYishlah: Choosing Not to Run
What was Ya’akov doing the night he was left alone on the other side of the river, the night he wrestled with an angel? According to the Rashbam, Ya’…
1 year, 6 months ago
R. Micha'el Rosenberg: Righteous Anger Part 2
From the Talmud to the Rambam and into the modern period, Rabbinic tradition generally views anger negatively. Anger appears as a kind of weakness, a…
1 year, 6 months ago
R. Tali Adler on Parashat VaYeitzei: Rachel's Sacrifice
The stories we tell about sacrifice tell us about who and what we believe is valuable and noble. In telling us about the thing that is sacrificed, t…
1 year, 6 months ago