As good religious children, we may learn many Bible stories. God chats with people, visits their dreams, feeds them, promises…
Category: Kabbalah
Mystical Fruit: Tu BeShevat
Enter the world of Pri Etz Hadar, the first published Kabbalistic Tu BeShevat Seder (c. 17th century). We learn that…
Animal Magic
A dvar Torah for Parshat Bo. A dream: I am walking through a sliding glass door to someone’s backyard pool. The…
Where are you?
Ideas by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz. Words by me. You, along with every human being, are engaged in a lifelong search.…
Hanukkah Truths
How many times has a teacher, website, or flyer promised to reveal to you The True Meaning of Hanukkah? How…
Potential
At the first meeting of Or Shalom’s adult bnei mitzvah class, my co-teacher Susan S. and I invited students to…
Beinoni
When my brother and I were young, our mother of blessed memory read the parenting book Between Parent and Child…
Compassionate Camels in Kabbalah
After the death of our ancestral mother Sarah, Abraham decides he would like his son Isaac to marry a relative.…