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Va’etchanan: Whitney Houston, Camp, and Building our Future
Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through an ethic…
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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…
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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…
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Vayechi: Connecting the Dots
Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through an…
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Vayeitzei – Rest, Divine Presence, and Holy Energy
Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through…
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Lech Lecha: Journeying Inside and Out
Part of an ongoing series that explores Torah through…
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Mad at Alan Lew
I’m mad at Alan Lew.
I know he died in 2009, and I hope…
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The Holiness In What We Must Remember To Forget: Shabbat Zakhor And Vayikra
Inscribed above the exit of Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust…