The mystical meaning of Kabbalat Shabbat The first sentence invites you to an ecstatic musical celebration in Vancouver…the rest invites…
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Feel the Fear
The bible’s oldest political strategy—and why it doesn’t work Content warning: kings, scorpions, and other terrors—but with a gift of…
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…
War: Where Do You Draw the Line?
Pacifists, Just War Theorists, and the Rest of Us Photograph by Laura Duhan-Kaplan For years I was active in Concerned…
After the Mountain
When cosmic consciousness fades, the inner work begins. Here is something the great prophets teach us. Seeing God doesn’t automatically…
Do Dreams Come True?
Dreams are symbolic communications. And, as Rabbi Lawrence Hoffman says, “Symbols symbolize.” That is, they don’t have a specific fixed…
Land: Look up From Your Screen and Listen
Land says: The land and everything that fills it, the world and all who dwell in it, are God’s (Psalms…
Sky Tells a Story About God
Sky says: “The sky tells a story about the glory of God; the expanse tells of God’s handiwork” (Psalm 19:2,…
Eagle Feather: I Carried You Back
Eagle story. It’s not quite a story of sin and redemption. But it is a story of crime and reconciliation—a…