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Va’etchanan: Whitney Houston, Camp, and Building our Future

Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through an ethic…
image of geologic layers representing four levels of Torah interpretation, with text that says "drilling through the pshat, remez, derash, gematriot and sod to gain deep meaning of a Torah verse is hard work. Using literal interpretation to justify division and judgement rather than to love cheapens Torah and does harm to humanity."

Nasso: On PaRDeS and Speaking Out Against Judgmental Literalism

Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through an ethic…
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Bamidbar: The Wander Years and Traveling Together

Introduction to Sefer Bamidbar: The Wander Years by Rabbi…

Prayerbooks in Your Onion Baskets – from Life Lessons from Recently Dead Rabbis

  This is an excerpt from R. Mark Asher Goodman's Life…
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Emor: Extending Family

Emor: Extending Family Part of an ongoing series that explores…

Vayechi: Connecting the Dots

Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through an…

Vayeitzei – Rest, Divine Presence, and Holy Energy

  Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through…

Lech Lecha: Journeying Inside and Out

  Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through…

Mad at Alan Lew

I’m mad at Alan Lew. I know he died in 2009, and I hope…
image of Torah scroll text of the first words of vayikra, vayikra el moshe laimor, daber el

The Holiness In What We Must Remember To Forget: Shabbat Zakhor And Vayikra

Inscribed above the exit of Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust…