Catch Me Before I Fall
There are a lot of laws in the Torah—613, to be exact. Many are completely irrelevant to you and me. …
Category Archives: Deuteronomy
Telling Moses “We’re OK”
As a rabbi who writes a weekly essay, I’ve come to realize that I have much greater freedom since I …
Racing a Hurricane
Hurricanes can seem like slow moving, bumbling things that take forever to arrive. I once saw a meme that said, …
Indifference
A man once asked two famous rabbis to teach him the entire Torah while standing on one foot. The first …
Judaism in Italy
Over the past two weeks I have visited synagogues in three Italian cities: Florence, Sienna, and Rome. I attended services …
What Does God Want?
“If…then” propositions tend to worry me. Something has to happen for something else to happen. It presupposes an outcome which …
Moses’ Words
In the turning of the Jewish year, each summer we come to the beginning of the Book of Words, D’varim, …
The Poetry of Brokenness
Robert Frost once said, “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought, and the thought has found words.” In …
God’s Wish
This Shabbat, just before Rosh Hashanah, we read one of my favorite passages from the Torah: Surely, this Instruction …
Joy in Community
Last year when we read this week’s Torah portion I had just purchased a new crockpot. I got it at …
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