When the End of Days comes, we will find out: One particular religious group has been right all along, and all…
Category: Torah
Spiritual Imagination
I used to imagine that my late mother was “religious, but not spiritual.” She loved going to synagogue, hosting holiday…
Is God Privileged?
What do we teach about how power works? What do we teach about how a Higher Power works? Terrible events…
Rolling My Vegetarian Eyes
Teenagers Sasha and Malia Obama couldn’t keep a straight face during the annual Turkey Pardon Ceremony. Thank God for their…
Jacob IS the Ladder
The Biblical Jacob, a young man of about 19, sets out to seek his fortune. On his first night away…
Jacob's Ladder Meditation (Video)
A human is a ladder planted on earth whose head reaches heaven and the angels of God ascend and descend…
Re-Reading My Story
“That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it!” So Aunt Sylvia, of blessed memory, used to say. I always received this…
Remembering Rabbi Judith Z. Abrams, z"l
A blog post should be a masterful short personal essay, a little narrative opening to a universal lesson. Kind of…
Interpreting Kohelet
At Sukkot, it is traditional to study the book of Kohelet (Ecclesiastes). The original reason for this tradition is mysterious…