The Piaseczna Rebbe on turning intention into daily practice A teaching from the Piaseczna Rebbe, Rabbi Kalonymus Shapira—filtered through my…
Category: Torah
Compassion: Recite it, Live it
The thirteen attributes of compassion. Divine compassion, that is. A list of qualities that, our Torah says, express God’s true…
The Story We Live
Two Distinct Stories about What it Means to Be Jewish Hidden Inside Five Verses of Torah To be Jewish is…
A 360° Overview of Life
The simple things are not so simple I just returned from the Chavaya Festival—a Jewish Renewal music festival in the Pacific…
What My Mother Knew
Isaiah’s Long View of Comfort Today is Shabbat Nachamu, the Shabbat of Comfort. We read one of Isaiah’s most beautiful…
The Vision Before the Fall
What the prophets teach about division—and reconciliation Photograph by Laura Duhan-Kaplan Today is Shabbat Chazon, the Shabbat of Vision, the…
The Face of God is Peace
Bamidbar and the Temptation of Holy War On Mt. Sinai God tells Moses: You cannot see My face (panai); you…
Renewing Jewish Spiritual Leadership: Vayikra's Small Aleph
When I was a teen in New York City, my father and I liked to slip out of the house…
After the Mountain
When cosmic consciousness fades, the inner work begins. Here is something the great prophets teach us. Seeing God doesn’t automatically…