Emor: Extending Family
Emor: Extending Family Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through an ethic of social justice and building a world worthy of the Divine. .דַּבֵּ֛ר אֶל־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר בַּחֹ֨דֶשׁ […]
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Hayye Sarah: Return to the Earth
Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through an ethic of social justice and building a world worthy of the Divine. Parashat Hayye Sarah opens with the death […]
Make a garland for your sukkah
Part of a series on needle craft as spirituality _________________________ Arts and crafts was always my favorite activity as a kid, and now, as an adult, my inner crafter is […]
Transphobia Is Not A Jewish Value
By Rabbi Mike Moskowitz (he, him) Reb Yisroel Salanter, the founder of the modern mussar movement, taught “Not everything one thinks, should be said. Not everything that one says, should […]
The Holiness In What We Must Remember To Forget: Shabbat Zakhor And Vayikra
Inscribed above the exit of Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum, is a quote attributed to the Ba’al Shem Tov: “Forgetfulness leads to exile, while remembrance is the secret of redemption.” […]